Working Party on Passive Safety | Session 61 | 8-12 May 2017
Geneva
Agenda Item 26. (f)
Other business: Intelligent transport systems

53. GRSP note the progress of work activities on automated vehicles of the IWG on Intelligent Transport Systems and Autonomous Driving (ITS/AD). The expert from France noted that the activities of the task force on Cyber Security, including software update on Over The Air (OTA) could have an influence on performances of safety devices such as air-bag deployment. Moreover, he clarified that the assumption that the future market deployment of autonomous vehicle would supersede the need of passive safety devices was incorrect. Therefore, he concluded that mixed traffic conditions of traffic would, in the future, still need passive safety equipment on vehicles because advanced automated vehicles would share the roads with less advanced ones and also other road users (e.g.: pedestrians, cyclists, two-wheelers).

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