One issue that has shown itself repeatedly in vehicles employing self-driving technology is an apparent literal blind spot in such systems for first responders stopped at the side of the road.
Repeated incidents of police cars and fire trucks being struck by cars whose drivers thought were driving themselves show that these “edge” cases of unusual circumstances remain a weakness for the software that studies the information coming into the car from its various imaging systems.
This problem isn’t going to solve itself, so Tammy Trimble, senior researcher for the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) has produced a report for the Governors Highway Safety Association examining the factors involved in these crashes, with the goal of developing ways to eliminate this problem from vehicles with automated driving systems without disrupting first responder protocols.
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