The purpose of this safety framework document (Safety Framework) is to communicate our overarching approach to safety for our upcoming Driver-Out Pilot, and to document the structured safety framework that we have developed that is designed to ensure risks will be appropriately mitigated for driver-out operation within the selected Operational Design Domain (ODD).
Unlike the traditional automotive industry, which has long-established standards to prove safety and roadworthiness of human-driven vehicles, the autonomous vehicle (AV) industry is at its beginning stages of development. This gives us the opportunity to be an integral and active part of creating wholly-sufficient standards. We believe it is our responsibility to develop and employ standards-based methodologies to guide AV-specific standardization and to communicate our overall safety solution.
