62. The expert from the Russian Federation, Co-Chair of the Task Force on Advanced Driver Assistant Systems (ADAS), introduced GRVA-12-18 with a status report of the activities performed by the group. He emphasised his intention to speed up the process and suggested the creation of a drafting group. He mentioned the reduced participation in recent meetings, with a usual attendance of 80 experts dropping recently to 50 experts and called for more engagement. He reported on the two workstreams of the group, on UN Regulation No. 79 and on a new regulation on a subset of ADAS that the group calls Driver Control Assistance Systems (DCAS). He detailed items from the current group’s discussions.

63. The expert from the Russian Federation also reported on activities of the group related to the task assigned by GRVA on the clarification of boundaries between ADAS and ADS. He presented GRVA-12-17. He referred to the literature e.g. the SAE International standard J3016. He mentioned that the key element distinguishing ADAS from ADS levels was the presence of a driver when the system is operating. He clarified that, according to this, DCAS would be an ADAS. He reported on the group’s consideration of ADAS systems claiming an increased performance and that were sometimes referred to as Level 2+. He explained that the group identified the challenges related to some ADAS that would perform similarly to ADS. He added, the task force discussed that the driver should not be the mitigator of risks associated with the operation of an automated system. He continued that taking routines and workload away from the driver would not automatically provide more safety and that systems performing like ADS should be subject to ADS regulations. He concluded by detailing a list of items that the group could focus on to develop regulatory provisions.

64. The outcome of the work done by the task force on boundaries between ADAS and ADS received comments from the European Commission, France, FIA and OICA. GRVA agreed to resume consideration of this item.