About Us Our Technology Fleets Data Services Blog Newsroom Contact Us Responsibility-Sensitive Safety A mathematical model for automated vehicle safety How will AVs safely share the road with human drivers? One of the biggest threats to the successful realization of an autonomous future is the lack of agreement on what it means for an AV to drive safely. Only when industry, governments, and the public have a common way to understand and assess the driving skill and safety of an automated vehicle (AV) will they be trusted to safely drive alongside people. With human-inspired common sense rules for what it means to drive safely as our guide, Mobileye has proposed a technology neutral safety model that can help industry and government alike come to a common definition of what it means for an automated vehicle to drive safely. Made up of formal logic and rules, our proposal – called Responsibility-Sensitive Safety (RSS) – adheres to five safety rules. The 5 Safety Rules of RSS 01 02 03 04 05 Don’t hit the car in front of you Based on common laws of physics and a century of driving experience, new human drivers are taught to leave enough space between themselves and the car in front of them in order to provide enough time to react if the car in front were to suddenly brake. The 'Two Second Rule' is an intuitive way for any human driver to leave a safe distance without needing to calculate the velocities of both cars, the driver’s reaction time, and the front vehicle’s braking capability. The AV, on the other hand, can be programmed to create and operate within a safe following distance, based on the formula below. The moment the distance between the two cars is less than dmin, the AV brakes until a safe following distance is restored, or until the vehicle comes to a complete stop, whichever occurs first. Prof. Shashua at World Knowledge Forum: Platform for Safe & Scalable AVs Oct 29, 2017 Prof. Shashua at World Knowledge Forum: Platform for Safe & Scalable AVs Oct 25, 2018 Professor Shai Shalev-Shwartz on Formalizing the 'Duty of Care' for Self-Driving Cars Mar 4, 2020 Responsibility-Sensitive Safety – Jack Weast's Mobileye D.R.I.V.E.S. Presentation Jan 6, 2020 Responsibility-Sensitive Safety in Action The forthcoming IEEE standard [to develop a standard for safety considerations in AV decision-making] will provide a useful tool to answer the question of what it means for an AV to drive safely Jack Weast Intel senior principal engineer The RSS Concept On a Formal Model of Safe and Scalable Self-driving Cars Academic Paper Vision Zero: Can Roadway Accidents be Eliminated without Compromising Traffic Throughput? Academic Paper Towards Standardization of AV Safety: C++ Library for Responsibility Sensitive Safety Academic Paper Safety First for Automated Driving Whitepaper Digitizing the Social Contract for Safer Roads Editorial Innovation Requires Originality Editorial Implementing the RSS Model on NHTSA Pre-Crash Scenarios Whitepaper Paving the Way Toward Safer Roads for All Editorial Experience Counts, Particularly in Safety-Critical Areas Editorial From the News Self-Driving Roadway Safety Requires Industry Leadership April 4, 2018 MORNING CONSULT How to make cities ready for autonomous vehicles, and AVs ready for cities Aug 17, 2020 Automotive World The CEO of Mobileye explains why self-driving cars can't be too cautious Jan 25, 2020 Business Insider 2020: When AVs Attack, Who’s at Fault? Jan 2, 2020 EE Times 1 2 3 4 5 Last >> Worldwide Standardization of RSS The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE): IEEE 2846 (forthcoming) Approved a proposal to develop a standard for safety considerations in AV decision-making, and participation in the workgroup is open to companies across the AV industry. China ITS Industry Alliance: Technical Requirement of Safety Assurance of AV Decision Making (0116-2019) The standards body for the world’s largest passenger vehicle market, has approved a 1.0 standard that uses RSS as the basis to define the basic principles of planning safety including minimum safe distance, dangerous situation, and proper response. 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