4 papers
Assessing a Safety Case: Bottom-up Guidance for Claims and Evidence Evaluation
Scott Schnelle, Francesca Favaro, Laura Fraade-Blanar +3
As Automated Driving Systems (ADS) technology advances, ensuring safety and public trust requires robust assurance frameworks, with safety cases emerging as a critical tool toward…
Determining Absence of Unreasonable Risk: Approval Guidelines for an Automated Driving System Deployment
Francesca Favaro, Scott Schnelle, Laura Fraade-Blanar +6
This paper provides an overview of how the determination of absence of unreasonable risk can be operationalized. It complements previous theoretical work published by existing deve…
Being good (at driving): Characterizing behavioral expectations on automated and human driven vehicles
Laura Fraade-Blanar, Francesca Favarò, Johan Engstrom +4
For over a century, researchers have wrestled with how to define good driving behavior, and the debate has surfaced anew for automated vehicles (AVs). We put forth the concept of D…
RAVE Checklist: Recommendations for Overcoming Challenges in Retrospective Safety Studies of Automated Driving Systems
John M. Scanlon, Eric R. Teoh, David G. Kidd +12
The public, regulators, and domain experts alike seek to understand the effect of deployed SAE level 4 automated driving system (ADS) technologies on safety. The recent expansion o…