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UPDATE 8/17 -- added presentation slides!I'm very pleased to share a publication from our NREC autonomy validation team that explains how computationally cheap image perturbations and degradations can expose catastrophic perception brittleness issues.  You don't need adversarial...

PennDOT has just issued new Automated Vehicle Testing Guidance:       July 2018 PennDOT AV Testing Guidance (link to acrobat document)(also, there is a press release.)It's only been a short three months since the PA AV Summit in which PennDOT took up...

It's common for autonomous vehicles to use road map data, sign data, and so on for their operation. But what if that data has a problem?Consider that while some data is being mapped by the vehicle manufacturers, they might be relying upon other data as well.  For example, some...

As the self-driving car industry works to create safer vehicles, it is facing a significant regulatory challenge.  Complying with existing Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) can be difficult or impossible for advanced designs. For conventional vehicles the FMVSS...

It was great to have the opportunity to participate in a panel on autonomous vehicle validation and safety at AVS in San Francisco this past week.  Thanks especially to Steve Shladover for organizing such an excellent forum for discussion.The discussion was the super-brief version. If you want to dig deeper, you can find much more complete slide...

Our Robustness Testing team at CMU/NREC presented a great paper at ICSE on the things we learned on five years with the Automated Stress Testing for Autonomy Systems (ASTAA) project across 11 projects, finding 150 significant bugs.Paper at CMUSlides at CMU Robustness Testing of...