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CICV, Marmara University and BigTRI Join the International Alliance for Mobility Testing & Standardization - SAE International Releases Updated Visual Chart for Its “Levels of Driving Automation” Standard for Self-Driving Vehicles with chart as PDF: SAE J3016 Levels of Driving Automation
The Society for Automotive Engineering has defined six levels of vehicle automation, from 0 to 5. Text taken from the SAE's graphic:
What does the human in the driver's seat have to do?
The levels differ in how much control of the vehicle that the automation features have, from completely manual at level 0 to completely automated at level 5. At level 0, the features are mostly for providing advisory information to the driver, like warning about getting too close to the vehicle in front, and they have very little control over the vehicle.
Levels 1 and 2 differ in how much driver-assistance automation that they have.
The Society for Automotive Engineering has defined six levels of vehicle automation, from 0 to 5. Text taken from the SAE's graphic:
What does the human in the driver's seat have to do?
- 0, 1, 2: You are driving whenever these driver support features are engaged - even if your feet are off the pedals and you are not steering.
- 3, 4, 5: You are not driving when these automated driving features are engaged – even if you are seated in “the driver ’s seat”.
- 0, 1, 2: You must constantly supervise these support features; you must steer, brake or accelerate as needed to maintain safety.
- 3: When the feature requests, you must drive.
- 4, 5: These automated driving features will not require you to take over driving.
- 0: These features are limited to providing warnings and momentary assistance.
- 1: These features provide steering OR brake/acceleration support to the driver.
- 2: These features provide steering AND brake/acceleration support to the driver.
- 3, 4: These features can drive the vehicle under limited conditions and will not operate unless all required conditions are met.
- 5: This feature can drive the vehicle under all conditions.
- 0: automatic emergency braking, blind spot warning, lane departure warning.
- 1: lane centering OR adaptive cruise control.
- 2: lane centering AND adaptive cruise control at the same time.
- 3: traffic jam chauffeur.
- 4: local driverless taxi, pedals/steering wheel may or may not be installed.
- 5: same as level 4, but feature can drive everywhere in all conditions.
The levels differ in how much control of the vehicle that the automation features have, from completely manual at level 0 to completely automated at level 5. At level 0, the features are mostly for providing advisory information to the driver, like warning about getting too close to the vehicle in front, and they have very little control over the vehicle.
Levels 1 and 2 differ in how much driver-assistance automation that they have.