I've worked on a number of pieces that are relevant to automated/autonomous vehicle (AV) regulations lately. Here is a resource page to organize the material all in one place.
- Round table discussion on AV ethics, safety, and trust (good starting point for orientation to issues; should be no paywall despite being IEEE)
- Smerconish general audience piece on issues with AV industry public road testing (both Tesla and rest of industry)
- Video of SiriusXM Radio interview: Michael Smerconish and Phil Koopman
- Five Principles for regulation of highly autonomous vehicles
- Keynote talk on autonomous vehicle safety engineering
- AV industry and trust
- SSRN Autonomous Vehicle Regulation and Trust (detailed scholarly publication preprint for legal journal). Several topics in this paper appear in shorter versions elsewhere on this list
- Autonomous Vehicle Myths: The Dirty Dozen {AV policy myths, disinformation campaign}
- EE Times short version
- Longer, more detailed version
- Video talk on the dirty dozen
- Letter sent to Washington State rebutting the type of disinformation that is being circulated by AV industry groups in this case about the UL 4600 standard
- General regulatory playbook for state & municipal DOT/DMV organizations
- Regulatory playbook
- Why disengagements are the wrong metric.
- Proposal for regulating AV testing that addresses the Level 2 loophole
- Tesla FSD issues
- Tesla FSD is functionally a Level 4 test bed (short version)
- Why Tesla FSD should be treated as a Level 4 test deployment by regulators (long version)
- J3016 information
- What it would take to make Level 2 & Level 3 systems safe beyond J3016
- SAE J3016 User Guide. (Important: J3016 is not and never has been a safety standard.)
- An alternative to J3016 levels for communicating to drivers
- Video talk on J3016
- Ethics, safety & trust for AVs:
- Lessons learned from the Tempe/Uber testing fatality
- Ethical issues that matter (hint: not the trolley problem)
- Safety case for public road testing
- Software safety for vehicle automation short course (part of a grad course I teach at Carnegie Mellon University)
- More general coverage podcasts:
- AV safety metrics podcast series
- Autonocast: AV safety engineering
- No Parking Podcast: building trust & reliability in autonomous vehicles. (Older material from 2019)
A quick note on standards:
- SAE J3018 is relevant to public road testing in which a human driver ensures safety
- Important: it is about driver capability, not automation capability
- When there is no human driver continuously monitoring safety, then automated vehicle technical standards become relevant: ISO 26262, ISO 21448, ANSI/UL 4600
- One slide showing how the standards fit together when there is no safety driver
- More details about ANSI/UL 4600
