Simulating accidents with autonomous vehicles while not knowing what they look like

Autonomous vehicles could significantly reduce accidents – at least in the future. To make matters worse, there are no standards, and autonomous vehicles from different manufacturers have different designs for their products’ concepts, training, and testing. For the researchers, the goal is to explore live virtual interactions between human drivers and (simulated) autonomous vehicles. The algorithms use data from databases and platforms to calculate virtual crash scenarios that anticipate possible actions of autonomous vehicles. To realize autonomous vehicles’ theoretically higher safety potential, people will have to adapt to the technology, Gambi warns.