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Safety Metrics for Autonomous Vehicles
26:34 - 37:04 (10:30)
Aurora's CEO discusses the company's approach to demonstrating the safety of autonomous vehicles, including working closely with experts at regulatory bodies like NHTSA, while also acknowledging the unpredictability of the timeline for large scale deployment.
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The adoption of autonomous vehicle technology poses challenges in terms of conveying its capabilities and ensuring its safety to the public.
26:34 - 30:00 (03:26)
Summary
The adoption of autonomous vehicle technology poses challenges in terms of conveying its capabilities and ensuring its safety to the public. Experts and regulatory bodies will need to collaboratively work together to demonstrate proof of its effectiveness through simulations, unit testing, and decomposition testing.
ChapterSafety Metrics for Autonomous Vehicles
EpisodeChris Urmson: Self-Driving Cars at Aurora, Google, CMU, and DARPA
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
The discussion focuses on the possibility of creating a safety metric beyond fatalities for autonomous vehicles, and how to measure human performance in different tasks such as detecting traffic lights.
30:00 - 32:52 (02:51)
Summary
The discussion focuses on the possibility of creating a safety metric beyond fatalities for autonomous vehicles, and how to measure human performance in different tasks such as detecting traffic lights. They also touch on the highly debated topic of the trolley problem formulation in AVs.
ChapterSafety Metrics for Autonomous Vehicles
EpisodeChris Urmson: Self-Driving Cars at Aurora, Google, CMU, and DARPA
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
The deployment of autonomous vehicles on a large scale would depend on people trying it, understanding its safety, and using it in their daily lives.
32:52 - 37:04 (04:11)
Summary
The deployment of autonomous vehicles on a large scale would depend on people trying it, understanding its safety, and using it in their daily lives. Once this is achieved, the technology would move from its current engineering project status to commercialization and delivering the value it promises.