Page 7 - The 4th Global Standards Symposium 2022 - Conclusions

Artificial intelligence for road safety

The GSS-20,
Recognizing that digital innovation as well as connectivity plays a decisive and important role in enabling
assisted and automated driving and ensuring road safety for all,

– Puts the spotlight on the role of ITU, other SDOs and UN entities in harnessing the potential of AI,
and other digital technologies in enhancing road safety through better collection and analysis of
crash data, improving the road communication infrastructure, increasing the efficiency of post-crash
response, inspiring the development of road safety functions leveraging on mobile phone
penetration. ITU together with the Office of the Secretary-General's Envoy on Technology and the
United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Road Safety, launched the AI for Road Safety
initiative, to support in particular developing countries to fully benefit from available technologies
aimed at improving road safety, including support of data collection.
– Advances the importance of standards developed by relevant standardisation and regulatory
organisations in their respective areas of competence, including ITU, ISO as well as UNECE and other
standards/regulations entities in bridging the road safety divide.
– Encourages ITU to provide additional necessary telecommunication guidance in the area of
telecommunications and connectivity on the deployment of self-driving vehicles, and in this respect
encourages ongoing pre-standardization efforts by the ITU Focus Group on AI for Autonomous and
Assisted Driving (FG-AI4AD) with the aim to ensure that performance of AI on roadways meets, or
exceeds, the performance of a responsible human driver.

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