Ignite by Forvia Hella<\/a> – the software venture of automotive supplier Forvia Hella – which was founded in 2024 and is headquartered in Berlin.<\/p>\nThey believe that AV manufacturers at present struggle to move from Level 2 (partial driving automation where the driver is legally responsible) to Level 3 (conditional driving automation where the manufacturer assumes liability) and Level 4 (fully-autonomous driving).<\/p>\n
However, the partners think that knowledge-based AI using expert knowledge and logical reasoning to solve complex problems can be applied to AVs.<\/p>\n
This is different to machine learning, which uses vast datasets to find patterns, rather than making logical and explainable decisions based on data combined with expert knowledge, the firms suggest.<\/p>\n
Their simulation-based software was built using OST\u2019s RDFox, which they say delivers more accurate and reliable results than a large language model (LLM).<\/p>\n
Instead, the solution can capture what AVs do in real time, cross-reference it against traffic rules, “ensuring every decision it makes is logical, traceable and compliant”, the companies say.<\/p>\n
This should reduce development lead times, helping AV teams move faster toward approval.<\/p>\n
\u201cHella Ignite.Drive applies knowledge-based AI by translating traffic laws, originally written for human interpretation, into machine-readable rule sets,” explains Dr Felix Kortmann, CTO of Ignite by Forvia Hella.<\/p>\n
“This enables manufacturers to generate deterministic evidence that demonstrates safe and compliant vehicle behaviour for European type approval.”<\/p>\n
OST CEO Peter Crocker adds: “AVs currently use AI to make a whole range of decisions on the road – but at the moment manufacturers are struggling to show why or how these decisions are made.”<\/p>\n
“RDFox can help with this major barrier to progress.”<\/p>\n
“What knowledge-based AI allows us to do is to collect and map these decisions and apply reasoning. We can see exactly why a vehicle acts in a certain way and use this data to help the vehicle make better decisions in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dr Ian Horrocks, Oxford University professor and OST co-founder adds: “A key advantage of the technology is traceability, where decisions can be linked back to the rules and logic that produced them.”<\/p>\n
OST says RDFox is already deployed within tens of millions of Samsung\u2019s smartphones worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An AI solution which attempts to show regulators and others how autonomous vehicles (AVs) make the decisions they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-546621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}