Hands off the wheel in autonomous vehicles?: A systems perspective on over a million miles of field data

Proceedings - 48th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, DSN 2018

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 586-597

  Banerjee, Subho S ^a   Jha, Saurabh ^a   Cyriac, James ^a   Kalbarczyk, Zbigniew T ^a   Iyer, Ravishankar K ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Accident; Autonomous Vehicles; Disengagement; Fault Characterization; Reliability

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE; LEARNING SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY; VEHICLES;

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES; DISENGAGEMENT; FAULT CHARACTERIZATION; FIELD DATA; HUMAN DRIVERS; PUBLIC ROADS; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT;

ACCIDENTS;

EID: 85051079564     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DSN.2018.00066     Document Type: Conference Paper

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