PERCEPTION ENABLED TECHNOLOGY
Autonomous Vehicle Safety:
A Holistic Approach
Proving the safety of autonomous vehicles is a significant milestone in our mission to make fully driverless trucking a reality. To that end, we’ve developed a world-class safety framework that goes far beyond current automotive industry regulations.
Functional Sadety
Both simple and complex systems in our driverless trucks are designed to be fail operational, meaning they will be able to function safely even in the event of an electrical or electronic malfunction.
Safety of the Intended Function (SOTIF)
As with any vehicle, rare road situations can pose risks even when all equipment is working correctly. That’s why we apply a design technique called SOTIF (Safety of the Intended Function). We exhaustively search for rare but possible situations and then design and validate our system to handle them.
Data-Driven Substantive Safety
At Cicret, we evaluate safety from different perspectives to create a comprehensive approach. This includes gathering and analyzing data to ensure that all outcomes can be detected, contained, and managed safely, through simulating road scenarios and replaying sensor data to discover gaps. These activities ensure our design is substantively safe to operate.
Operational Safety
While our driverless truck technology targets driver-out applications, operators still work directly or indirectly with the trucks during testing, servicing, and dispatching. We’ve created safety processes to make sure people and trucks interact safely.
Product Safety
Our approach to the safety of autonomous vehicles expands on automotive industry-standards and covers safety hazards that can’t be detected normally by drivers and service techs. For example, our automated safety tools check the health of the system and expanded pre-trip inspections make sure the truck and autonomous system are ready before they’re used.
Cybersecurity
Tightly coupled with functional safety, cybersecurity applies to electronic systems, components, software, and connectivity of the vehicles. Cybersecurity considerations are incorporated into automotive products throughout their lifetime, with specific requirements for software development.