Safety of Autonomous Vehicles

“Simulations using Sayan’s algorithm show that the alignment [of an airplane prior to landing] does improve,” he [Dragos] said. 

The next step, planned for later this year, is to employ these systems while actually landing a Boeing experimental airplane. 

One of the biggest challenges, [Dragos] Margineantu noted, will be figuring out what we don’t know — “determining the uncertainty in our estimates” — and seeing how that affects safety. “Most errors happen when we do things that we think we know — and it turns out that we don’t.”