Developing a Safety Management System for the Automated Vehicle Industry

2025-01-8673

04/01/2025

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WCX SAE World Congress Experience
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Content
Safety Management Systems (SMSs) have been used in many safety-critical industries and are now being developed and deployed in the automated driving system (ADS)-equipped vehicle (AV) sector. Industries with decades of SMS deployment have established frameworks tailored to their specific context. Several frameworks for an AV industry SMS have been proposed or are currently under development. These frameworks borrow heavily from the aviation industry although the AV and aviation industries differ in many significant ways. In this context, there is a need to review the approach to develop an SMS that is tailored to the AV industry, building on generalized lessons learned from other safety-sensitive industries. A harmonized AV-industry SMS framework would establish a single set of SMS practices to address management of broad safety risks in an integrated manner and advance the establishment of a more mature regulatory framework. This paper outlines a proposed SMS framework for the AV industry based on robust taxonomy development and validation criteria and provides rationale for such an approach.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/2025-01-8673
Pages
15
Citation
Wichner, D., Wishart, J., Sergent, J., and Swaminathan, S., "Developing a Safety Management System for the Automated Vehicle Industry," SAE Technical Paper 2025-01-8673, 2025, https://doi.org/10.4271/2025-01-8673.
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Published
Apr 01
Product Code
2025-01-8673
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English