An approach to ensuring and comprehensive assessment of the safety level of automated vehicles during operation on public roads

Abstract

The key factor determining the further development and timing of the full implementation of autonomous vehicles is the confidence that such vehicles will fully ensure road safety. The problem of safety for automated driving systems is quite complex and unsolved today. The article describes the safety aspects and analyzes the classification of errors of automated vehicles that cause a security threat. The list of the main mechanisms for ensuring the safety of automated vehicles necessary to ensure the maximum possible level of safety at the current level of development of automated driving technologies, identified on the basis of the analysis of methods used by leading developers, is given. The authors' concept of assessing, ensuring and effectively improving the safety level of automated vehicles at the stages of the life cycle is presented. The method proposed by the authors for the resulting assessment of safety indicators of automated vehicles during operation on public roads is given.