Saturday, May 11, 2024

Video: Autonomous Vehicle Safety: More Than Net Risk (Live)

 Talk for EV Society of Canada, May 7, 2024 -- recorded as a live webinar

Safety will ultimately be the deciding factor for the viability of autonomous vehicle technology. Despite various pronouncements and hype over the years of the inevitability that they will (or won't) be safe, nobody actually knows how safety will turn out. Beyond that, practical safety will require going far beyond the usual metric of whether a robotaxi or robotruck is safer than an average human driver. This talk covers how robotaxi incidents over past year have illustrated the need to expand our view of safety, and which aspects of safety urgently need attention for the industry to succeed.