Beyond safety drivers: Applying air traffic control principles to support the deployment of driverless vehicles.

ABSTRACT: By adopting and extending lessons from the air traffic control system, we argue that a nationwide remote monitoring system for driverless vehicles could increase safety dramatically, speed these vehicles' deployment, and provide employment. It is becoming clear that fully driverless vehicles will not be able to handle "edge" cases in the near future, suggesting that new methods are needed to monitor remotely driverless vehicles' safe deployment. While the remote operations concept is not new, a super-human driver is needed to handle sudden, critical events. We envision that the remote operators do not directly drive the vehicles, but provide input on high level tasks such as path-planning, object detection and classification. This can be achieved via input from multiple individuals, coordi

SUBMITTER: Hampshire RC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7241796 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature