SDAIA: Autonomous vehicles will be commercially available by 2030
Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE International) has identified the levels of autonomous vehicles between 0 and 5.
SAE International, in an electronic issue for the Saudi Data and AI Authority (SDAIA), said that the motorist drives the vehicles from levels 0 to 2 upon activating driver support features even if they do not steer vehicles and their feet are away from gas pedals. This is in addition to supervising supporting features steering direction and controlling speed according to need to preserve safety. The society added that upon operation between levels 3 and 5, there will be no need for the motorist if they were sitting on the driver seat, where the system might ask the driver at level 3 to drive the vehicles. At levels 4 and 5, the system will not ask the motorist to drive the vehicle at all because the system drives the vehicle.
The SDAIA supervises the use of AI technologies in Saudi Arabia and anticipates its future work, after a Royal Decree was issued on Thu Al-Hijjah, 1440 Hijri to establish the authority, where the decree included establishing a national center for AI and an office to administrate national data, organizationally connected to SDAIA.
In case autonomous vehicles witness development in their technologies and an increase in their production and experiments and adoption of their policies, it is expected for them to become safe and credible by 2025 and will be commercially available in the world by 2030, before they account for 50% of sale by 2045 to be available for all by 2050.
SDAIA is planning to hold a workshop on Thursday in coordination with Ministry of Interior to discuss the current situation in Saudi Arabia and the world and the experiments that have been made in autonomous vehicles.
