253-I Didn't Fight the Law, We all Won: Compliance to Rules of the Road
Date and Time: Tuesday, July 11, 2023: 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Plaza A
RAND
Waymo
Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, Department for Transport, United Kingdom
Session Moderators and Organizers
MODERATORS
Marjory S. Blumenthal, Senior Policy Researcher, RAND Corporation
Laura Fraade-Blanar, Senior Safety Researcher, Waymo
Amitai Bin-Nun, Senior Engineer, Motional
ORGANIZERS
Laura Fraade-Blanar, Waymo
Amitai Bin-Nun, Motional
Marjory S. Blumenthal, RAND Corporation
TRB Sponsoring Committees and Partners
Session Description and Agenda
DESCRIPTION
An AV’s ability to comply with rules of the road is essential to public acceptance of the AV and its integration into urban mobility systems. This complements an AV’s ability to meet federal safety standards (FMVSS) and is related to but distinct from best practices. This session aims to provide a broad understanding of the process and challenges around translating rules of the road into AV-executable behavior by combining presentations from industry and academia with a hands-on exercise.
AGENDA
Welcome
Panel 1: Academic, regulator, and non-industry voices on AV compliance with rules of the road
Panel 2: Industry voices on AV compliance with rules of the road
Interactive activity involving audience participation on how to translate a rule of the road into AV-executable language
Session Objectives
Provide a broad understanding of the bases through which companies translate rules of the road into AV-executable behavior
Discuss the difficulties and challenges with said execution, how said difficulties and challenges vary between laws, and what this means for an AV’s ability to comply
Facilitate hands-on experience using roleplay, translating a law into AV-executable language in the role of AV company compliance officer
Respond to the rising importance of this topic, as signified by (A) more AVs take to the streets and, concomitantly, are recorded and reported being non-compliant; (B) seminal papers on AV compliance to rules of the road were published, and (C) new best practices may be arriving soon from standards-making bodies.
253-I Didn't Fight the Law, We all Won: Compliance to Rules of the Road
Description