by Jackie | Aug 20, 2020 | Autonomy, Perception, Safety, Ul 4600
How safe is a car without a driver? That’s a decade-old question the world keeps asking automotive OEMs, but the people who come up with the answer first might very well be auto insurance agents. Read the article
by Jackie | Mar 9, 2020 | Autonomy, Perception, Safety
What is Safety? When will AI be good enough to remove the safety drivers from autonomous vehicles? Who decides, and how do they do it? From U.S. Navy subs to Carnegie Mellon, the National Robotics Engineering Center and now Edge Case Research, Dr. Phillip Koopman has...
by Jackie | Mar 3, 2020 | Autonomy, Perception, Safety
By Philip Koopman and Michael Wagner Self-driving cars promise improved road safety. But every publicized incident chips away at confidence in the industry’s ability to deliver on this promise, with zero-crash nirvana nowhere in sight. We need a way to balance long...
by Jackie | Oct 4, 2019 | Autonomy, Mentions, Perception
Washington, DC (CNN Business)Self-driving cars are coming. Or so we’re told. But they still face an existential question: When is a self-driving car truly ready to drive on its own? That will ultimately be judged by regulators such as the National Highway...
by Brendon O | Nov 26, 2018 | Autonomy, Machine Learning, Perception, Safety
Thursday morning starting at 9:15 am ET, ECR CEO Michael Wagner will be participating in a panel discussion titled “Managing Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence Development and Fielding”, where he will share his perspectives on how to apply system safety...
by Jackie | Nov 7, 2018 | Autonomy, Perception, Safety
There has been a lot of commentary and concern over recent autonomous vehicle testing accidents over the past few months, most notably since the fatal accident involving Elaine Herzberg and an Uber autonomous test vehicle. In that case, the safety driver was blamed...