Driving to Safety, Reconsidered

Monday, February 25, 2019

“A number of advocates have argued that AVs should be evaluated just as humans are – with a road test. While it’s not clear that we should settle for the imperfect way that things have been done for human drivers, there is some intuitive logic to the basic idea of measuring AV safety by seeing if they can navigate public roads successfully, minimizing accidents or software failures.”