HeyJaredPhil & Junko on AV Safety
Phil Koopman & Junko Yoshida weigh in on Autonomous Vehicle Safety and related topics
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Weekly News: How to Decipher the AV Safety Blitz (opens the original)
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A Guide To the Limitations of Robotaxi Safety Claims (opens the original)
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By Phil KoopmanOverviewThis essay dives deep, so here is the punchline: Autonomous Vehicle (AV) companies claiming that safety is a solved problem are not telling the whole story. The fine print of their safety studies overwhelms their public relations headlines. AV safety is still very much an open question.Worse, studies are not answering the question that matters. A rearview mirror accounting of how safety happened to turn out for older versions of technology is not predictive of safety outco
Weekly News: The Public’s Expectation of AI and AVs (opens the original)
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AV Gap: Industry Pitches Statistics, Public Wants Trust (opens the original)
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Careful and Competent Drivers with Nick Reed, Reed Mobility (opens the original)
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In this episode, we talk with Nick Reed, founder of Reed Mobility.In the UK, the Automated Vehicles Act, passed into the law in 2024, expects Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) to behave carefully and competently.But what does “Careful and Competent” driving entail? And where does the phrase come from?In the United States, on one hand, we hear lots of statistical safety claims by AV companies. On the other hand, we know very little of the public’s perception and expectation of AV safety.Instructive is th
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