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The Role of RSS A shared vision to reduce traffic fatalities through driverless technology has yielded a wide range of approaches throughout the industry. “Safety First for Automated Driving” reconciles the many different approaches into a cohesive whole where only the best and safest approach is

public roads. “Safety First for Automated Driving” brings together vast expertise from leading global automakers, suppliers and technology providers in the industry’s first comprehensive guidance for developing safe- by-design AVs.

How It Works The foundation of the paper is 12 guiding principles and the steps necessary to realize them. Each principle is refined into a series of capabilities that a safe AV must support; safety elements are then derived to implement the capabilities. (Descriptions of the principles begin on page five of the paper.) Intel’s RSS model is highlighted under the Drive Planning Element that supports a capability to “create a collision-free and lawful driving plan.” This element achieves the top- level principle to behave safely as a means to understand, predict and manage the manners of AVs and help ensure they conform to the rules of the road.

taken. RSS was proposed in 2017 as a technology-neutral starting point for the industry to align on what it means for an AV to drive safely. RSS formalizes human notions of common sense driving into a set of mathematical formulas that are transparent and verifiable, providing a “safety envelope” around an AV’s decision-making capabilities. “Safety First for Automated Driving” adds to the momentum behind the global acceptance of RSS, including recent support lent by technology leader Baidu*, automotive supplier Valeo*, standards body China ITS* and others.

Semiconductor Industry Capex Forecast to Slump in 2019 and 2020

Five of the past six semiconductor industry capex downturns have lasted two years before recovering. IC Insights will release its 200+ page Mid-Year Update to the 2019 McClean Report next month. A portion of the Mid-Year Update will examine semiconductor industry capital spending trends with

double-digits rates for one or two years (1985-1986, 1992, 1997-1998, 2001-2002, 2008- 2009, and 2012-2013): , Formula E in Paris: Audi drivers brave April weather In every case between 1983 and 2010 where spending declined, a surge in spending of at least 45% occurred two years later. The second year

an industry-wide forecast through 2023. In addition, the Update will include IC Insights’ capital spending forecast for each of the 32 major spenders for 2019 and 2020. Figure 1 shows the annual capital spending changes from 1983 through IC Insights’ forecast for 2019 and 2020. Over the past 34 years, there have been six periods when semiconductor industry capital spending declined by

increases in spending after the cutbacks were typically stronger than the first year after a downturn since most semiconductor producers acted very conservatively coming out of the slowdown and waited until they had logged 4-6 quarters of good operating results before significantly increasing their capital spending again. This is expected to be the case for 2020 with most semiconductor producers

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