The effect of ride experience on changing opinions toward autonomous vehicle safety
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are a promising emerging technology that is likely to be widely deployed in the near future. People’s perception on AV safety is critical to the pace and success of deploying the AV technology. Existing studies found that people’s perceptions on emerging technologies might change as additional information was provided. To investigate this […]
Out on the road: The importance of applying industry safety standards to AV development
Safety is at the core of everything we do at Aurora—from how we test and develop, to the culture we create and the products we are working to deploy. A key part of our approach to safety is that we openly share components of our safety work with the industry, as we did with our Safety Case Framework. […]
Putting the Pieces Together: Addressing the Role of Behavioral Safety in the Safe System Approach
GHSA’s new report makes the case for the integral role of behavioral safety and road user responsibility in the Safe System approach to traffic safety. Putting the Pieces Together: Addressing the Role of Behavioral Safety in the Safe System Approach, developed for GHSA by Cambridge Systematics, includes actionable recommendations illustrating how organizations and advocates can work […]
J.D. Power 2021 Mobility Confidence Index Study – Whitepaper
The J.D. Power 2021 Mobility Confidence Index (MCI) Study in collaboration with MIT AVT and PAVE brings together three organizations with an aligned mission to understand consumer knowledge and acceptance of fully automated, self-driving vehicles. Each contributing organization has extensive independent research experience providing consumers, government, and industry with a data-driven comprehension of consumer behaviors. […]
Learning from the Failure of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems: Accidents, Safety, and Sociotechnical Sources of Risk
Efforts to develop autonomous and intelligent systems (AIS) have exploded across a range of settings in recent years, from self-driving cars to medical diagnostic chatbots. These have the potential to bring enormous benefits to society but also have the potential to introduce new—or amplify existing—risks. As these emerging technologies become more widespread, one of the […]
Autonomous Vehicle Regulation and Trust
The autonomous vehicle (AV) industry works very hard to create public trust in both AV technology and its developers. Building trust is part of a strategy to permit the industry itself to manage the testing and deployment of AV technology without regulatory interference. In this article, we examine the behavior of certain AV industry participants, […]
AVSC Best Practice for Evaluation of Behavioral Competencies for Automated Driving System Dedicated Vehicles (ADS-DVs)
Driving safely is a complex task. It involves a broad range of skills invoked in a vast number of potential scenarios. Assessing a set of behavioral competencies offers a valuable directional indication of automated driving system-dedicated vehicle (ADS-DV) safety performance. Behavioral competencies provide a starting point for additional assessment and contribute to a manufacturer’s case […]
2021 Motional Consumer Mobility Report
Americans see promise in AVs, but more work to do. For the second year in a row, Motional has commissioned a Consumer Mobility Report to help shed light on how the general public views, understands, and trusts autonomous vehicle technology. An independent third party surveyed 1,000 people from across America, and a few things are clear: Read […]
World Safety Summit 2021 Panel: AVs Beyond AI – Ensuring Safety at The System Level
This panel is sponsored by Partners for Automated Vehicle Education (PAVE) and moderated by Edward Niedermeyer, Director of Communications for PAVE. Ed is joined by Kartik Tiwari of Gatik, Nandita Aggarwal of Velodyne Lidar, and Burhan Muzaffar of Aurora. Modern machine learning techniques are a key enabler of the autonomous driving systems in development today, […]
Debunking AV Industry Positions on Standards and Regulations
Too often, I’ve read documents or listened to panel sessions that rehash misleading or just plain incorrect industry talking points regarding autonomous vehicle standards and regulations. The current industry strategy seems to boil down to “Trust us, we know what’s best,” “Don’t stifle innovation,” and “Humans are bad drivers, so computers will be better.” As […]
