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. Keywords: Safety Management System (SMS), Automated Driving System (ADS), ADS-Equipped Vehicle, Autonomous Vehicles (AV)

As you may know, data science teams spend about 80% of their time creating and managing training data. The usual issues are often related to poor in-house tooling, labeling re-work, finding the needed data, and the difficulties associated with collaborating and iterating on distributed teams' data. Frequent workflow changes, large-volume datasets, and a lack of proper data training workflow can hinder a company's development. These issues worsen when the company grows too quickly, as is often the case with startups, regardless of the industry. A perfect example of such a need for a scalable training-data strategy comes from the highly-competitive autonomous vehicles industry.

An autonomous vehicle is a vehicle fit for detecting its current circumstance and working without human contribution. A human traveler isn't expected to assume command over the vehicle whenever possible, nor is a human traveler expected to be available in the vehicle by any means. An autonomus vehicle can go anyplace, a conventional vehicle proceeds to do all with an accomplished human driver. However, the genuine guarantee of autonomous vehicle is the potential for decisively bringing down CO2 emanations. In a new report, specialists distinguished three patterns that, whenever taken on simultaneously, would release the maximum capacity of auto vehicles: vehicle robotization, vehicle zap, and ridesharing.

Despite what people might think, the biggest challenge to the fully-autonomous future is not technical or scientific, but in fact, societal. According to a survey from the American Automobile Association (AAA), 88% of the American adult population say that they would never trust riding in a self-driving car. It's easy to dismiss this lack of trust as ignorance on the part of the American consumer, but it's crucial that the automotive industry addresses consumer concerns with new developments in technology. Driving is quite safe overall--the US sees about one death per 100 million miles travelled. Some estimates suggest that in order to directly compare autonomous vehicle safety with that of non-autonomous vehicles, one would need to test drive self-driving cars for billions of miles, a prohibitively costly endeavour.

Between late buses and traffic jams, transport is a sore point for most Maltese commuters, but eCabs CEO Matthew Bezzina thinks that this shouldn't hinder us from taking on a proactive approach in the autonomous vehicles industry. The digital revolution of the 21st century has catapulted industries into the future, forcing them to innovate or fall behind. According to Bezzina, the same will happen with the mobility industry and Malta should be at the forefront. The autonomous vehicles industry is at its early stages. With one of the highest road network densities and mix of old and new road infrastructure, Malta could become a model country for testing autonomous vehicles and in turn attract global players in tech industries.

Asif: Tell us about your journey with your multiple startups and successful exits. What were some of the biggest challenges you faced? To date, I've built three venture-backed companies, one bootstrap company and a fifth company I, unfortunately, had to close down. My most recent exit experience was also my most successful. I founded BlazeMeter, back in September of 2011, and we were acquired by CA technologies in October of 2016.

With artificial intelligence (AI) driving the entire world towards a mobility revolution, the autonomous driving industry has found itself right in the centre of it. Not only governments, across the globe, gearing up for it, but also private companies are getting excited about bringing autonomous vehicles to full operation. In that case, these companies will be looking to hire skilled personnel in the autonomous vehicle industries. And, therefore, one can look forward to a challenging but exciting career in the autonomous vehicle industry. According to Indeed, there has been a rise of 668% of searches for autonomous vehicle-related jobs since 2015.

At the blockbuster plenary sessions, the chairs stretched so far back that even the most youthful Silicon Valley college dropouts-turned VC hoovers had to squint to see the action up in front. A handful of large projection screens hung between the ballroom's chandeliers, displaying loop-de-looping flow charts on vehicle safety systems, sensor alignments, liability law. But despite the best efforts of the downtown San Francisco Hilton's air conditioners, the air shared by the attendees of this year's Automated Vehicles Symposium was thick with secrets and doubt. Eight years after Google first showed its self-driving car to The New York Times, the autonomous vehicle industry is still trying to figure out how to talk about itself. Over the three-day conference, engineers, business buffs, urban planners, government officials, and transportation researchers grappled with how to tell the public that its wonder drug of a transportation solution will have its limitations.

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