'Black box to log logs on automatic driving car' German authorities to legislate installation obligation

ByBecky Stern

The airplane records all of pilot and automatic pilot action, aircraft movement, communication contents with control, etc.Black box(Flight data recorder) "is installed. The purpose is to leave valuable data to clarify the cause, such as when an accident occurs, but in Germany it seems that there is a movement to make it obligatory to install similar black boxes in an automated driving car .

Germany to require 'black box' in autonomous cars | Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-autos-idUSKCN0ZY1LT

Germany wants black boxes in self-driving cars | Ars Technica
http://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/07/germany-wants-black-boxes-in-self-driving-cars/

According to the information that Reuters got from stakeholders of the German transport authorities, it is said that the installation of the "black box" equipped with the function to record the data to confirm the location of responsibility at the occurrence of the accident to the automobile company Movement towards legal maintenance that obliges is beginning.

According to the review proposal for the new regulation presented by the Minister of Defense of the German Transportation Ministry, it is necessary to constantly pay attention to traffic conditions and constantly grasp the steering wheel to drivers who ride in the automatic driving carI will not oblige youInstead, drivers are required to sit on a seat with a handle so that they can operate instantaneously in the event of an emergency. In other words, this means that the driver's seat can not be used in such a way that it turns 180 degrees and heads to the destination by automatic operation with all of them in the car facing the center.

And, in the same study plan, the content that obliges automobile manufacturers to install black boxes is included. Specifically, consider considering recording information such as when automatic operation was turned on, when manual driving by the driver was performed, and when the driver requested to cancel automatic operation It is being done.

The black box installed in the airplane is a device that collectively records a variety of data such as the state of the aircraft, pilots, the contents of control by the automatic pilot control device, voice of radio communication, voice in the cockpit, and voice in the aircraft. Once an accident by an airplane has occurred, passengers and airframes are greatly damaged, so there is a reality that it is difficult to investigate the cause after that. Under such circumstances, the black box is the device that records the data necessary for the analysis, what kind of operation and situation caused the accident even after the accident.

How do we elucidate the cause of the accident on the "black box" of the aircraft? - GIGAZINE


According to the reported contents, the black box of the automatic driving car does not record much information so far, it means that it is a device that records whether human beings or computers were in charge of driving in the event of an accident It is a pattern that is. Nonetheless, some car manufacturers already have logging on automatic operation. Tesla who has put on the "auto pilot" mode has adopted a mechanism to periodically send and analyze what kind of operation actually was done to the company's server and analyze the log when an actual accident occurs Originally a statement to deny the involvement of autopilot mode was announced, "The autopilot mode was not used and the accident occurred as a result of the driver ignoring the warning not to let go of the steering wheel." I also had something to do.

Traffic Accident Occurred Successively in Tesla Model X Autopilot Mode - GIGAZINE