Automated Vehicle Regulatory Launch Page

 I've worked on a number of pieces that are relevant to automated/autonomous vehicle (AV) regulations lately. Here is a resource page to organize the material all in one place.

• Round table discussion on AV ethics, safety, and trust (good starting point for orientation to issues; should be no paywall despite being IEEE)
• Smerconish general audience piece on issues with AV industry public road testing (both Tesla and rest of industry)
• Video of SiriusXM Radio interview: Michael Smerconish and Phil Koopman
• Five Principles for regulation of highly autonomous vehicles
• Keynote talk on autonomous vehicle safety engineering
• AV industry and trust
• SSRN Autonomous Vehicle Regulation and Trust (detailed scholarly publication preprint for legal journal).  Several topics in this paper appear in shorter versions elsewhere on this list
• Autonomous Vehicle Myths: The Dirty Dozen  {AV policy myths, disinformation campaign}
• EE Times short version 
• Longer, more detailed version 
• Video talk on the dirty dozen
• Letter sent to Washington State rebutting the type of disinformation that is being circulated by AV industry groups in this case about the UL 4600 standard
• General regulatory playbook for state & municipal DOT/DMV organizations
• Regulatory playbook 
• Why disengagements are the wrong metric.  
• Proposal for regulating AV testing that addresses the Level 2 loophole
• Tesla FSD issues
• Tesla FSD is functionally a Level 4 test bed (short version)
• Why Tesla FSD should be treated as a Level 4 test deployment by regulators (long version)
• J3016 information
• What it would take to make Level 2 & Level 3 systems safe beyond J3016 
• SAE J3016 User Guide. (Important: J3016 is not and never has been a safety standard.)
• An alternative to J3016 levels for communicating to drivers
• Video talk on J3016
• Ethics, safety & trust for AVs:
• Lessons learned from the Tempe/Uber testing fatality
• Ethical issues that matter (hint: not the trolley problem)
• Safety case for public road testing
• Software safety for vehicle automation short course (part of a grad course I teach at Carnegie Mellon University)
• More general coverage podcasts:
• AV safety metrics podcast series
• Autonocast: AV safety engineering
• No Parking Podcast: building trust & reliability in autonomous vehicles. (Older material from 2019)

A quick note on standards:

• SAE J3018 is relevant to public road testing in which a human driver ensures safety
• Important: it is about driver capability, not automation capability
• When there is no human driver continuously monitoring safety, then automated vehicle technical standards become relevant: ISO 26262, ISO 21448, ANSI/UL 4600
• One slide showing how the standards fit together when there is no safety driver
• More details about ANSI/UL 4600