Making Cars Safer Through Technology …

1 Making cars Safer Through Technology innovation Rajat Sagar Product Manager ADAS Automotive Processors Texas Instruments Introduction Futurists have long dreamed of vehicles driving themselves. Remote control experiments date back nearly a century, and the 1939 New York World's Fair included automated highways in its World of Tomorrow. But the reality of fully autonomous vehicles remained out of reach until recently, when new technologies suddenly turned the fantasies of the past into present-day realities. The general public is aware that several large corporations and major automakers are developing self-driving Technology .

2 Less well known, however, is the extensive effort into assisted driving technologies and the semiconductor innovations enabling them. These technologies are rapidly changing car design, providing an evolution in automotive control that has put semi-autonomous vehicles on the roads now and fully autonomous options coming in just a few years. Semi and fully autonomous automotive control, based on advanced electronic sensing and processing, are valuable for more than just the excitement that comes with a technological breakthrough. They deliver real benefits in fuel savings, mobility and convenience, travel time and the efficient use of roadways.

3 Most important, however, are new forms of control that work actively to promote safety, not only for drivers and passengers, but other vulnerable road users as well. Texas Instruments (TI) is at the forefront of automotive Technology , driving innovation in analog and embedded-processing signal chains to shape the future of automotive electronics today. Addressing the need for accidents are overwhelmingly caused by human automotive safety error as much as 90 percent, according to some estimates assisting drivers so that they control According to government agencies, approximately their vehicles more safely is an obvious point of 40,000 people in the United States and about attack for reducing deaths and damages.

4 Million people worldwide died in traffic accidents last year. Traffic accidents remain the leading cause Vehicle control represents not only a remarkable of death for young people in the and are opportunity to enhance road safety, but also a high on the list of causes of death for the overall thriving market for those offering enabling electronic population. Above and beyond the fatalities are the Technology . Active safety systems represent the even greater number of injuries and the high cost fastest growing portion of the ~$30 billion spent of repairs associated with accidents.

5 Since traffic today on electronic components in automobiles Making cars Safer Through Technology innovation 2 June 2017. worldwide. Leading-edge semiconductor solutions The evolution of vehicle will help speed the introduction of these new safety automation capabilities, ushering in greater safety while sharing Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE). in this significant market. International's J3016: Taxonomy and Definitions for Terms Related to On-Road Motor Vehicle Safety enhancements depend on Automated Driving Systems standard is a advanced Technology classification system designed to provide a common Active safety depends on, among other things, terminology for automated driving.

6 Figure 1 on the advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), a following page lists SAE International's Levels of set of electronics-based technologies that are Driving Automation for On-Road Vehicle. designed to aid in safe vehicle operation. ADAS. Level 0 is no automation, and is already considered innovations help prevent accidents by keeping cars a thing of the past. at safe distances from each other, alerting drivers to dangerous conditions, protecting those in the In the Level 1 and Level 2 stages, these systems car and on the street from bad driving habits, and can briefly take active control of the car to assist in performing other safety-related operations.

7 ADAS parking, prevent backing over unseen objects and also provides functions that will serve as important avoid collisions by braking or swerving. Sometimes elements of computer-controlled autonomous the system actively controls an individual feature of operation in the future. If self-driving cars promise the automobile, such as adapting front headlights to free drivers so that they can use their time more automatically to upcoming curves and other effectively during commutes and longer trips, ADAS changing conditions. features will help minimize collision repairs, prevent Level 3 involves semi-autonomous operation; the injuries and save lives.

8 Car takes over driving in certain circumstances, but Automakers are racing to introduce more and the driver must be ready to resume control. Take for more driver-assistance capabilities into new example highway driving. One semi-autonomous cars , with the market availability of many features feature for highway driving is adaptive cruise control, increasing significantly every year. Automakers rely which changes speeds automatically to keep pace on leading semiconductor suppliers for a range of with traffic. Another is lane-keep assistance, which advanced integrated circuit (IC) technologies that uses a front or rear camera to keep the car centered can accurately and reliably support a variety of in its lane and at a safe distance from other drivers.

9 External sensors; communicate among the car's Park assist takes full control during parking in different systems and provide high-performance, crowded parking lots and garages, and in-cabin heterogeneous processing for the computer vision driver monitoring can detect an incapacitated driver and decision- Making necessary for next-generation and initiate a maneuver to pull the car over and stop ADAS and automated driving systems. it safely. Texas Instruments (TI) provides a wide portfolio When cars move to fully autonomous operation in of analog and digital products for ADAS and Level 4 and Level 5, there may be no one in the automated control and is innovating to provide driver's seat at all.

10 The only occupant may be an solutions for future development. elderly or handicapped person in the back seat, Making cars Safer Through Technology innovation 3 June 2017. Execution of Fallback System steering and Monitoring performance capability SAE acceleration/ of driving of dynamic (driving level Name Narrative definition deceleration environment driving task modes). Human driver monitors the driving environment The full-time performance by the human driver of 0 No automation all aspects of the dynamic driving task, even when enhanced by warning or intervention systems Human driver Human driver Human driver N/A.