Self-driving teams have always strived to measure safety. What if that’s not the hard thing?
Since the first dream of self-driving, there has always been a sharp focus (including from myself) on safety. The ability to reduce accidents is the grandest purpose of these projects, and every team declares that safety is at the core of everything they do. There’s a business reason behind that focus, not just a moral one — you can’t deploy and start making money until you’ve made a vehicle that is “safe enough.” Defining what “safe enough” means has been one of the more perplexing problems of the industry.