SAE Level 3 ‘hand off’ challenging AI researchers

When Gill Pratt, the CEO of Toyota Research Institute, the carmaker's artificial intelligence (AI) lab in Menlo Park, CA, mounted the CES 2017 stage in January, he delivered a reality check about automated driving.

“We're not even close to Level 5 autonomy, which the SAE defined as full robotic control everywhere, at any time, in any conditions,” Pratt told the audience. “We have many years of machine-learning research to do to achieve Level 5.”