Driving to Safety How Many Miles of Driving Would It Take to Demonstrate Autonomous Vehicle Reliability?

• Main Author: Kalra, Nidhi (auth)
• Other Authors: Paddock, Susan M. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: RAND Corporation 2016
• Subjects: Business & management; Highway & traffic engineering; Road & motor vehicles: general interest; Transportation Studies; Technology; Business
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

How safe are autonomous vehicles? The answer is crucial for developing sound policies to govern their deployment. This report evaluates whether it is practical to test-drive autonomous vehicles to assess their safety. We find that it would take hundreds of millions of miles and sometimes hundreds of...