SIEMENS
“ We ’ re working with governments and regulatory bodies on solutions for safety , reliability and security that make engineering and statistical sense ”
DAVID FRITZ SENIOR DIRECTOR , AUTONOMOUS AND ADAS , SIEMENS DIGITAL INDUSTRIES SOFTWARE ( DISW )
Reliability is key , because , he reasons , it ’ s no good having a safe and secure vehicle you can ’ t rely on to get you from A to B .
“ There are many standards emerging to address the key issues at various levels . Therefore , getting involved in their creation and promoting those initiatives is key . However , the big issue remains : How do you show safe , secure , and reliable ? Today , everyone is aware of the likes of Tesla and GM , but it ' s going to take a fleet of hundreds of cars , decades , if not centuries , to drive enough unique miles and encounter enough unique situations to statistically show they ' re safer than a human driver .”
That approach is , of course , totally impractical and not the one preferred by engineers like Fritz and Chandra . “ We ’ re leveraging the formalism and determinism of digital twins of the vehicle ,” explains Fritz . “ It can then be shown to behave just like the physical vehicle it models , and it can be driven in a virtual world with all of its practical and complex scenarios validated .”
Digital Twin Using a digital twin enables Siemens to simulate thousands of scenarios to develop the learning that will ultimately support intelligent and safe decisions . In the virtual
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