Research Note
Autonomous Vehicle Safety Comparison Framework
A safety comparison must align the system and version, automation state, operational design domain, geography, road types, time, weather, exposure, outcome definition, se
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Autonomous Vehicle Safety Comparison Framework
A safety comparison must align the system and version, automation state, operational design domain, geography, road types, time, weather, exposure, outcome definition, severity, crash involvement or fault basis, reporting threshold, data source, observation window, human benchmark, adjustments, uncertainty, and exclusions.
NHTSA warns that Standing General Order incident counts are not normalized by fleet size, miles, or ODD and that reporting entities have different access to crash information. Raw counts cannot rank entities.
Company data hubs can provide methods and downloadable data, but they remain company-authored evidence. Reproducibility, benchmark alignment, sensitivity analysis, and independent statistical review remain necessary.
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