20 citations · 37 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for
5 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…
Benchmarks for Retrospective Automated Driving System Crash Rate Analysis Using Police-Reported Crash Data
John M. Scanlon, Kristofer D. Kusano, Laura A. Fraade-Blanar +3
With fully automated driving systems (ADS; SAE level 4) ride-hailing services expanding in the US, we are now approaching an inflection point, where the process of retrospectively…
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…