Michael Wagner participating in AUSA Army Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy Symposium and Exposition
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 practices to...
Koopman on how AV can reduce fatalities, but maybe not as much as you think
Our co-founder Phil Koopman was quoted in an Axios article on setting realistic expectations for autonomous vehicle fatality reductions. While it is common to attribute 94% of fatalities to bad human driving, that number doesn't actually mean that self-driving cars...
Safetronic Keynote: Applying Functional Safety to AI
Our CEO, Michael Wagner, is giving the keynote at the Safetronic 2018 conference in Stuttgart-Fellbach Germany on Wednesday November 14. The focus of the conference is on functional safety practices and trends in the automotive industry. Michael's keynote is titled...
Commentary: Recent Waymo Test Vehicle Crashes
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...
Phil Koopman Participated on the Annual OESA Suppliers Conference Panel
Our co-founder Phil Koopman was on a panel on the future of automotive technology at the Annual OESA Suppliers Conference today. This is the flagship conference of the automotive industry Original Equipment Suppliers Association, which draws up to 1000 attendees....
ECR at NASA Autonomy Workshop
Edge Case Research will be participating in NASA’s Autonomy Workshop to be held on Carnegie Mellon University’s campus in Pittsburgh on October 10-11, 2018. The event is closed to the public, however most of the panel discussions will be livestreamed here:...
ECR and UL crafting new standard for autonomy safety
Edge Case Research and Underwriters Laboratories have initiated work on a new standard, dubbed UL 4600, that covers safety principles and processes for evaluation of autonomous products, specifically their ability to perform the intended function without human...
ECR’s Phil Koopman presents at AVS 2018
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V&V for Autonomous Vehicles
Today, ECR's Phil Koopman is presenting a paper at SAE World Congress titled "Toward a Framework for Highly Automated Vehicle Safety Validation". One of the most significant challenges to the mass deployment of an autonomous system, the paper and presentation help...
Edge Case Research Collaborates with Kaarta to Accelerate Autonomous Vehicle Safety
Edge Case Research (ECR), a leader in autonomous vehicle safety, is collaborating with Kaarta, innovator of real-time 3D reality capture, to revolutionize autonomous vehicle road testing. ECR has kicked off an initiative to map Pittsburgh’s streets using Kaarta 3D mapping and localization technology.