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The engineering group SAE International has updated its Levels of Driving Automation chart with more definitions for the Level 3 and Level 4 autonomous systems, which are in the upper end toward fully self-driving in the famous chart.
The basic framework remains the same, with six distinct levels from 0 to 5 between a car that can't handle any self-driving tasks and one that's fully capable of autonomous movement.
New rules for remote driving—because that's a thing that's coming—were also updated.
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The way the auto industry officially defines the varying levels of driver assistance technology, from absolutely nothing to full self-driving cars, is getting an update. These six levels that the organizing bodies for these terms, SAE International and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), first started defining in 2014 are being changed to include remote technologies and other clarifications.