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ADS Standardization Landscape: Making Sense of its Status and of the Associated Research Questions
Scott Schnelle, Francesca M. Favaro
Automated Driving Systems (ADS) hold great potential to increase safety, mobility, and equity. However, without public acceptance, none of these promises can be fulfilled. To engen…
Interpreting Safety Outcomes: Waymo's Performance Evaluation in the Context of a Broader Determination of Safety Readiness
Francesca M. Favaro, Trent Victor, Henning Hohnhold +1
This paper frames recent publications from Waymo within the broader context of the safety readiness determination for an Automated Driving System (ADS). Starting from a brief overv…
Building a Credible Case for Safety: Waymo's Approach for the Determination of Absence of Unreasonable Risk
Francesca Favaro, Laura Fraade-Blanar, Scott Schnelle +6
This paper presents an overview of Waymo's approach to building a reliable case for safety - a novel and thorough blueprint for use by any company building fully autonomous driving…
Collision Avoidance Testing of the Waymo Automated Driving System
Kristofer D. Kusano, Kurt Beatty, Scott Schnelle +3
This paper describes Waymo's Collision Avoidance Testing (CAT) methodology: a scenario-based testing method that evaluates the safety of the Waymo Driver Automated Driving Systems'…
Waymo's Fatigue Risk Management Framework: Prevention, Monitoring, and Mitigation of Fatigue-Induced Risks while Testing Automated Driving Systems
Francesca Favaro, Keith Hutchings, Philip Nemec +2
This report presents Waymo's proposal for a systematic fatigue risk management framework that addresses prevention, monitoring, and mitigation of fatigue-induced risks during on-ro…
Exploring the Relationship Between "Positive Risk Balance" and "Absence of Unreasonable Risk"
Francesca Favaro
International discussions on the overarching topic of how to define and quantify what a "safe enough" Automated Driving System (ADS) is are currently hinged on the question of dete…