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How safe is safe enough for autonomous vehicles?
By PHiliP KOOPMAN, associate professor
at Carnegie Mellon University. Learn more
about the author at the end of this article.
It should be obvious that autonomous
vehicles (AVs) need to be safe when they
deploy on public roads. At first, AVs might
not be perfect. But they should be safe
enough to avoid degrading public safety,
even if they aren't quite yet ready to do
better than human drivers. The " safe
enough " question should be answered as
part of introducing the technology on
public roads. But, as it turns out, defining
" safe enough " is not so simple.
Why don't we just go with " at least as
safe as a human driver " and leave it at that?
While that has intuitive appeal, it begs the
question of which human driver, driving
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which vehicle, under which conditions.
Moreover, an average safety target
overlooks the potential of risk transfer to
vulnerable groups of road users.
In other words, it's complicated.
Some industry advocates would have us
believe that computer drivers will be better
than human drivers because humans make
mistakes. So presumably computer
software is perfect? Really? Increasing
automotive software recall rates tell a
different story. While AVs might not suffer
from human foibles, they are certain to
make different mistakes than human
drivers. We can't simply assume AVs will be
safer than people at driving. We need to set
an expectation for where the balancing
point should be for an acceptable net
safety result.
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