The ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle Technology Summit conference (rates apply) opened this morning at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center.
Vivetha Natterjee, an autonomous vehicle safety specialist at Zeekr Technology Europe, kicked things off with a presentation titled ‘Robotaxi revolution: accelerating global deployment with AI and the emerging legal framework for Level 4 autonomy’, in which she examined how regions such as the EU, China, Germany, UK and the USA are pioneering harmonized legal standards that define operational domains, liability, cybersecurity and remote monitoring for Level 4 autonomy
Next on the agenda came an extended safety deep dive from Philip Koopman, faculty emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University, who emphasized that “removing the human driver fundamentally changes what we actually mean by acceptable safety.”
Day 1 of the conference also includes an overview of California’s framework for regulating automated driving systems (SAE Level 3-4) by Miguel Acosta, chief of the Autonomous Vehicles Branch at the CA DMV. Joy Carpio, an autonomous systems researcher at the Nissan Advanced Technology Center in Silicon Valley, will give a talk titled ‘Cooperative driving automation for congestion management: a field study for Highway I680 in California’.
Anurag Paul and Inderjot Saggu, staff engineers at Plus, will speak on ‘Reimagining autonomous trucking with VLMs and end-to-end models’. In an interview ahead of the show, they said, “After years of research and limited pilots, the autonomous truck industry is finally turning the corner toward real-world driver-out deployment. We want to speak about our AV2.0 architecture, and the application of VLMs and an end-to-end approach, to share our modern, AI-native framework built for deployment.”
The conference features over 50 speakers across two full days. Other highlights on Day 1 will be presentations from Zoox, ASAM, Microsoft, Torc Robotics, Woven by Toyota, GM and Wayve.
The conference will continue on Thursday, August 28, and will include presentations from Waymo, Foretellix, GM, Here Technologies and The University of Warwick, with panel discussions on ‘AVs and public acceptance – how can engineers help ready the public for widespread deployment?’ and ‘Challenges and opportunities presented by OTA updates for ADAS and AD development’. Click here to purchase a delegate pass for the ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle Technology Summit North America 2025
