Title
On a Formal Model of Safe and Scalable Self-driving Cars.
Abstract
In recent years, car makers and tech companies have been racing towards self driving cars. It seems that the main parameter in this race is who will have the first car on the road. The goal of this paper is to add to the equation two additional crucial parameters. The first is standardization of safety assurance --- what are the minimal requirements that every self-driving car must satisfy, and how can we verify these requirements. The second parameter is scalability --- engineering solutions that lead to unleashed costs will not scale to millions of cars, which will push interest in this field into a niche academic corner, and drive the entire field into a winter of autonomous driving. In the first part of the paper we propose a white-box, interpretable, mathematical model for safety assurance, which we call Responsibility-Sensitive Safety (RSS). In the second part we describe a design of a system that adheres to our safety assurance requirements and is scalable to millions of cars.
Year
Venue
Field
2017
arXiv: Robotics
Simulation,Engineering,Safety assurance,RSS,Standardization,Scalability
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1708.06374
21
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.38
3
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shai Shalev-Shwartz13681276.32
Shaked Shammah2604.15
Amnon Shashua33396384.93