EE Times talked to several safety experts and automotive analysts to find out what paths the AV industry might take to win public trust. Combining what we've heard from multiple sources, there are five things still missing in AV suppliers’ vehicle development practices:
- Establishing metrics for testing,
- Adopting “safety by design” AV development,
- Sharing, among AV developers, of data collected during testing,
- Building a feedback loop, and
- More sophisticated system-level simulations.
Agaram explained, “AV developers have a good common understanding of the technology needed to get an AV going. They are all individually searching for extreme cases that will make the AVs unsafe, ineffective, or annoying.” Agaram believes that eventually, “They will have to pool that data to come up with standards and regulations.”
Agaram urges AV testers to start “designing tests for certification (which is validation) and explain to each other as to what data they have seen to support the choice of those test scenarios.”
