<html><body><p>In the press today: "Tesla Autopilot partner Mobileye comments on fatal crash, says tech isn\u2019t meant to avoid this type of accident."<br><a href="http://electrek.co/2016/07/01/tesla-autopilot-mobileye-fatal-crash-comment/">http://electrek.co/2016/07/01/tesla-autopilot-mobileye-fatal-crash-comment/</a><br><br>"Tesla\u2019s autopilot system was designed in-house and uses a fusion of dozens of internally- and externally-developed component technologies to determine the proper course of action in a given scenario. Since January 2016, Autopilot activates automatic emergency braking in response to any interruption of the ground plane in the path of the vehicle that cross-checks against a consistent radar signature. In the case of this accident, the high, white side of the box truck, combined with a radar signature that would have looked very similar to an overhead sign, caused automatic braking not to fire.\u201d<br><br>More testing is needed ! Finding a way to improve ADAS/AD testing throughput by factor.<br><br>more HiL tests would have better helped to avoid this accident I guess, as white side box trucks are very common on the roads arent't they? So another strong reason to use <b>GPFS/SpectrumScale/ESS</b> filesystems to provide video files to paralell HiL stations for testing and verification using IBM<b> AREMA for Automotive</b> as essence system in order to find the relevant test cases.<br><br>Facts:<br><br>Currently most of the testing is done by copying large video files from some kind of "slow" NAS filer to the HiL stations and running the HiL test case from the internal HiL disks. A typical HiL test run takes 7-9min while the copy alone takes an additional 3-5 min upfront depending on the setup. Together with IBM partner SVA we tested to stream these video files from a ESS GL6 directly to the HiL stations without to copy them first. This worked well and the latency was fine and stable. As a result we could improve the number of HiL test cases per month by a good factor without adding more HiL hardware.<br><br>See my presentation from the GPFS User Day at SPXXL 2016 in Garching February 17th 2016<br>9:00 - 9:30 Improving Testing Efficiency with IBM Spectrum Scale for Automated Driving<br><a href="https://www.spxxl.org/sites/default/files/GPFS-AREMA-TSM_et_al_for_ADAS_AD_Testing-Feb2016.pdf">https://www.spxxl.org/sites/default/files/GPFS-AREMA-TSM_et_al_for_ADAS_AD_Testing-Feb2016.pdf</a><br><br>More:<br><a href="http://electrek.co/2015/10/14/tesla-reveals-all-the-details-of-its-autopilot-and-its-software-v7-0-slide-presentation-and-audio-conference/">http://electrek.co/2015/10/14/tesla-reveals-all-the-details-of-its-autopilot-and-its-software-v7-0-slide-presentation-and-audio-conference/</a><br><br>-frank-<br><br>P.S. HiL = Hardware in the Loop<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware-in-the-loop_simulation">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware-in-the-loop_simulation</a><br><br>Frank Kraemer<br>IBM Consulting IT Specialist / Client Technical Architect<br>Am Weiher 24, 65451 Kelsterbach<br><a href="mailto:kraemerf@de.ibm.com">mailto:kraemerf@de.ibm.com</a><br>voice: +49-(0)171-3043699 / +4970342741078<br>IBM Germany<BR>
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