Verifying interactions between AVs and people

Summary: The interactions between Autonomous Vehicles and people can be complex, which complicates AV deployment.  This post summarizes some recent related publications, and then tries to predict the verification implications of all that. For instance, it suggests that verification teams will try to track total-accidents, AV-specific-accidents and AV-specific-annoyances. There were several interesting publications lately about “bumps on … More Verifying interactions between AVs and people

The “Synthetic Sensor Input” problem in AV verification

Summary: This post discusses the annoying “Synthetic Sensor Input” (SSI) problem, i.e. the fact that it is very hard to synthesize realistic, synchronized streams of sensor inputs (e.g. Video+LiDAR+Radar). It explains why the SSI problem is a pain for Autonomous Vehicles verification (and for other things), and talks about the (imperfect) solutions. Let me start … More The “Synthetic Sensor Input” problem in AV verification