Accidents & Violence, Author Interviews, Environmental Risks / 13.07.2018
Self-Driving Cars Can’t Eliminate All Accidents So How Safe is Safe Enough?
MedicalResearch.com Interview with:
Dr. Peng Liu, Assistant Professor
Department of Industrial Engineering
College of Management and Economics
Tianjin University, China
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings?
Response: Self-driving vehicles promise to considerably reduce traffic crashes. However, they cannot eliminate all crashes.
On March 18, 2018, a female pedestrian was killed after being struck by an autonomous Uber vehicle in the self-driving mode in Arizona, USA. This fatal crash triggered a widespread public debate over the safety of self-driving vehicles. So, how safe is safe enough for self-driving vehicles?
Our findings show that our participants implicitly think self-driving vehicles should be four to five times as safe as the current human-driven vehicles.
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Dr. Peng Liu, Assistant Professor
Department of Industrial Engineering
College of Management and Economics
Tianjin University, China
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings?
Response: Self-driving vehicles promise to considerably reduce traffic crashes. However, they cannot eliminate all crashes.
On March 18, 2018, a female pedestrian was killed after being struck by an autonomous Uber vehicle in the self-driving mode in Arizona, USA. This fatal crash triggered a widespread public debate over the safety of self-driving vehicles. So, how safe is safe enough for self-driving vehicles?
Our findings show that our participants implicitly think self-driving vehicles should be four to five times as safe as the current human-driven vehicles.
(more…)