Dr Siddartha KhastgirHead of Safe AutonomyWMG, University of Warwick
UK
2025 has the potential of being a pivotal year for Automated Vehicles (AV) ecosystem, with various large-scale deployments in the Americas and Europe & Asia moving to the later stages of regulation, including the secondary legislation of the UK’s Automated Vehicles Act. However, one of the key challenges associated with understanding safety of AV is in establishing the safety threshold or benchmark. Various approaches have been suggested, such has Careful & Competent Human Driver or comparison to historic accidents; however, a well understood and accepted objective definition of safety for AV still evades of the industry.
In this talk, we present an objective leading indicator-based approach to defining safety for AV and stopping criteria for their testing.