Taiwan’s Bureau of Transport and Safety will release an initial report in July on road incidents involving electric cars equipped with complex motive force assistance systems (ADAS), and the final report will be released in May next year.
On Nov. 30 last year, the council opened an investigation after an ADAS-equipped Audi electric van hit a dimmer attached to a truck on the Sun Yat-sen Highway (Highway No. 1), damaging cars and a sedan ahead. it. No one killed or injured.
Council chairman Lin Shinn-der (林信得) said the council is in the process of collecting data on several similar cases to include in its report.
Photo: Lo Pei-de, Taipei Times
“We will investigate all such incidents to determine whether they were caused by the government’s lack of awareness of the challenge or by a lack of preventive measures, faulty design of the vehicle or drivers,” he told reporters in Taipei before attending a meeting. Meeting of the Legislature’s Transportation Committee.
The Society of Automotive Engineers defines six degrees of driving automation, ranging from 0 (fully manual) to five (fully autonomous). Vehicles provided with ADAS are considered Level 2, in which the formula can guide and accelerate or decelerate, but a human motive force can pull out of the vehicle at any time.
Level 3 cars have “environmental sensing” features and can automatically make informed decisions, such as accelerating in the face of a slow-moving vehicle, but the motive force will have to remain in a position to take control. Level four refers to superior driving automation. in which cars can operate in autonomous driving mode, but can only operate in a limited area.
Although most self-driving cars in Taiwan are Level 2, some car dealers claim that their cars feature an Autopilot feature that informs drivers about the other levels of automation.
Meanwhile, the committee is due to release a final investigation report next month into a fatal turn of fate on the Taichung MRT Green Line on May 10 last year, when a crane boom fell from a structure onto the MRT’s augmented tracks near Feng-le Park Station in Nantun District (南屯), killing one passenger and wounding 15 others.
Separately, Lin told lawmakers at the committee’s assembly that tests of Taiwan Railway Corp’s new exercise formula did not go as planned.
The state-owned railway company purchased the system, developed through Lilee Systems (理立系統), to help it monitor the operation of the activity after the Puyuma Express exercise derailed on Oct. 21, 2018, killing another 18 people and injuring 200.
Taiwan People’s Party lawmaker Huang Kuo-chang (黃國昌) said Taiwan Railway got a grant of NT$60. 67 million (USD 1. 86 million) for the work of the National Council of Science and Technology, but failed to generate valuable results.
Huang said the railway company seeks to gain advantages for the contractor while embezzling taxpayers’ money.
“We held a forum to analyze the knowledge generated through the system, which didn’t even pass the evidence of the concept. We alerted the rail operator to the challenge of the system,” Lin said.