An Open, Transparent, Industry-Driven Approach to AV Safety

摘要

At Intel and Mobileye, saving lives drives us. Since joining forces, we've spread the word on the need for a safety standard for autonomous vehicles (A V), and how consumers and regulators alike demand transparency not offered by existing metrics used in A V safety claims. We proposed Responsibility-Sensitive Safety as a potential solution, a formal, mathematical model that defines what safe driving looks like. It was our first step towards building consensus in the industry. Today we take the next step in that journey, diving deeper into the makeup of RSS: What is this model, how does it work under the hood, and how can RSS help us balance the tradeoff between safety and usefulness of AV's? Higher levels of safety may result in overly conservative A Vs that nobody wants on the road. So where should industry and the public draw the line to answer the question "How safe is safe enough "? Help us drive the conversation today that will enable the autonomous tomorrow.