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 | Aug 11, 2020 | Autonomy, Safety
The “drivers of tomorrow” will likely be a dramatic change from what we experience on our roads today. Replacing hundreds of thousands of human drivers, the driver of the future may be hundreds of millions of lines of software code. In the future, software “drivers”...
by Jackie | Jun 16, 2020 | Autonomy, Press Release, Safety
Autonomous mobility relies on cutting edge engineering and artificial intelligence to drive safely. Less than twenty years ago, many self-driving vehicles could travel no faster than a walking pace. Fast forward to today, and you’ll find self-driving developers like...
by Jackie | Apr 2, 2020 | Safety, Ul 4600
Underwriters Laboratories has completed — on schedule — its first standard for Autonomous Vehicles. Called UL 4600, it is published and now available at ULstandards.com. The UL group, which embarked on the ambitious task of drafting the standard only a year ago,...
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...
