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Wednesday, November 30, 2022

The UL 4600 Guidebook


The UL 4600 Guidebook:
What to Include in an Autonomous Vehicle Safety Case

Book cover

ANSI/UL 4600 is the most comprehensive standard for highly automated vehicle safety, applying to any vehicle in which a human driver can take their eyes off the road. It provides a way to check the completeness and correctness of a safety case that spans a broad range of concerns related to safety, including design, deployment, and lifecycle support. There is a special emphasis on computer hardware and software, as well as operational concepts and interaction with other road users. While other relevant standards can and should be used as well, UL 4600 provides an umbrella to make sure things don’t get missed for assuring safety.

This book, written by the author of the original UL 4600 standard proposal, serves as a high-level guided tour. Early chapters provide historical context, a description of the distinctive UL 4600 prompt element approach, a discussion of key terms, and how a safety case works in the context of the standard. Then comes a chapter-by-chapter tour of UL 4600, explaining overall concepts and how all the pieces fit together for each area covered by the standard, from safety cases to hazard analysis to assessment. This book will help technical readers prepare for diving into the nitty gritty of the standard, as well as provide a more accessible discussion for those who want to understand what UL 4600 covers at a higher level. The last chapter provides pointers to further information, including how you can view the current version of UL 4600 for free.

This is a comparatively short (about 100 pages of main content) trade paperback (6"x9") discussion of a much longer, fairly complex standard. So think of it as a tour guidebook and not a textbook.

Currently available for purchase from Amazon, with international distribution via their print-on-demand network. (See country-specific distribution list below.)

eBook available from Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/pkoopman

Available from Barnes & Noble and some US and UK book distributors: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/philip%20koopman

Media coverage and bonus content:

Chapters:

  1. Introduction
  2. Overview and applicability of UL 4600
  3. Requirements and prompt elements
  4. Terminology
  5. The safety case
  6. Hazards and risks
  7. Interaction with people and road users
  8. Autonomy functions and support
  9. Software & system engineering process
  10. Dependability
  11. Data and networking
  12. Verification, validation, and test
  13. Tools, COTS, and legacy qualification
  14. Lifecycle concerns
  15. Maintenance
  16. Safety Performance Indicators
  17. Assessment
  18. Wrap-up
138 pages.

Koopman, P., The UL 4600 Guidebook: What to Includes in an Autonomous Vehicle Safety Case, November 2022.
ISBN: 9798365303065  Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9798365303249  Hardcover   (available only in marketplaces supported by Amazon)
ASIN: B0BNLVC22J  Kindle ebook


For those asking about distribution -- it is served by the Amazon publishing network. Expanded distribution is selected, so other distributors might pick it up in 6-8 weeks to serve additional countries (e.g., India) or non-Amazon booksellers, especially in US and UK. How that goes is beyond my control, but in principle a bookstore anywhere should be able to order it by about mid-January 2023. Alternately, you can order it direct from Amazon in the closest one of these countries for international delivery: US, UK, DE, FR, ES, IT, NL, PL, SE, JP, CA, AU.


Your local bookstore should also be able to order it through their US or UK distributor. starting in mid-January.

If you are not in a listed country:
  • For printed books you can probably order it from a nearby country for international shipment.
  • For Kindle ebook what matters is what country your kindle is registered for, which is not necessarily your physical location.

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Sunday, November 13, 2022

Book: How Safe is Safe Enough? Measuring and Predicting Autonomous Vehicle Safety

How Safe Is Safe Enough for Autonomous Vehicles? 
The Book


The most pressing question regarding autonomous vehicles is: will they be safe enough? The usual metric of "at least as safe as a human driver" is more complex than it might seem. Which human driver, under what conditions? And are fewer total fatalities OK even if it means more pedestrians die? Who gets to decide what safe enough really means when billions of dollars are on the line? And how will anyone really know the outcome will be as safe as it needs to be when the technology initially deploys without a safety driver?

This book is written by an internationally known expert with more than 25 years of experience in self-driving car safety. It covers terminology, autonomous vehicle (AV) safety challenges, risk acceptance frameworks, what people mean by "safe," setting an acceptable safety goal, measuring safety, safety cases, safety performance indicators, deciding when to deploy, and ethical AV deployment. The emphasis is not on how to build machine learning based systems, but rather on how to measure whether the result will be acceptably safe for real-world deployment. Written for engineers, policy stakeholders, and technology enthusiasts, this book tells you how to figure out what "safe enough" really means, and provides a framework for knowing that an autonomous vehicle is ready to deploy safely.

Currently available for purchase from Amazon, with international distribution via their print-on-demand network. (See country-specific distribution list below.)

See bottom of this post for e-book information, from sources other than Amazon, as well as other distributors for the printed book.

Media coverage and bonus content:

Chapters:

  1. Introduction
  2. Terminology and challenges
  3. Risk Acceptance Frameworks
  4. What people mean by "safe"
  5. Setting an acceptable safety goal
  6. Measuring safety
  7. Safety cases
  8. Applying SPIs in practice
  9. Deciding when to deploy
  10. Ethical AV deployment
  11. Conclusions
368 pages.
635 footnotes.
On-line clickable link list for the footnotes here: https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/SafeEnough/

Koopman, P., How Safe Is Safe Enough? Measuring and Predicting Autonomous Vehicle Safety, September 2022.
ISBN: 9798846251243 Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9798848273397 Hardcover   (available only in marketplaces supported by Amazon)

Also see my other recent book: The UL 4600 Guidebook

For those asking about distribution -- it is served by the Amazon publishing network. Expanded distribution is selected, so other distributors might pick it up in 6-8 weeks to serve additional countries (e.g., India) or non-Amazon booksellers, especially in US and UK. How that goes is beyond my control, but in principle a bookstore anywhere should be able to order it by about mid-November 2022. Alternately, you can order it direct from Amazon in the closest one of these countries for international delivery: US, UK, DE, FR, ES, IT, NL, PL, SE, JP, CA, AU.


You can also buy it from some Amazon country web sites via distributors. A notable example is:

Your local bookstore should also be able to order it through their US or UK distributor.

E-book available from distributors as they pick it up over time: 

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Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Video: How Safe Is Safe Enough for Autonomous Vehicles

Video lecture summarizing main topics covered in my book:

Abstract:

The most pressing question regarding autonomous vehicles is: will they be safe enough? The usual metric of "at least as safe as a human driver" is more complex than it might seem. Which human driver, under what conditions? And are fewer total fatalities OK even if it means more pedestrians die? Who gets to decide what safe enough really means when billions of dollars are on the line? And how will anyone really know the outcome will be as safe as it needs to be when the technology initially deploys without a safety driver?

In this talk I outline some key factors involved in measuring and predicting autonomous vehicle (AV) safety. This includes what people mean by "safe," setting an acceptable safety goal, measuring & predicting safety, deciding when to deploy, and ethical AV deployment. A framework for making a responsible deployment decision needs to include not just risk, but also deal with inevitable uncertainty, stakeholder inclusion, and an ethical governance model. The talk is a high level overview of my recently published book: How Safe Is Safe Enough? Measuring and Predicting Autonomous Vehicle Safety.


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