Marjory S Blumenthal

Safe Enough: Approaches to Assessing Acceptable Safety for Automated Vehicles Marjory S Blumenthal

Establishing whether automated vehicles (AVs) are acceptably safe is not straightforward, and continual technology modification adds complication. RAND researchers analyzed three approaches to assessing safety-measurements, processes, and thresholds-and noted the different kinds of evidence associated with each. This report also describes the challenges and options related to communicating about AV safety, especially to the general public.