Challenges in Autonomous Vehicle Safety Assessment
Recorded live at a US DOT workshop on May 29, 2024.
Knowing whether an autonomous vehicle is safe enough to operate on
public roads is an extremely difficult challenge. Assessment must
include acknowledging that operating millions of miles does not come
close to proving safety, that robot drivers will make mistakes -- often
the same mistakes people make, fundamental incompatibilities between
conventional safety engineering processes and the machine learning
technology used by these systems, a pervasive lack of automotive safety
standard adoption by the industry, and important considerations of
safety that go far beyond net statistical risk.
Event home page: https://www.transportation.gov/hasscoe/highlights/AI-assurance
