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It should be mandatory for all self-driving car (system/software) vendors to publish their test plans and all test logs for public to review before the car/software are allowed to be on the public road.

It likely allows everyone to learn from all the mistakes and improve the process for the whole industry - similar to the passenger airplane safety record improvements learned from every single accidents/crashes.

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Perhaps we will end up with a standardized validation simulation model that autonomous vehicles must pass for licensing. The test suite could grow as more anomalous scenarios are analyzed (ex: acceleration into gore point; white-painted trailer truck turning across divided highway; debris on highway), and it would ensure that any new vehicle on the market or OTA update would meet a minimum of safety. Manufacturers could compete on test suite coverage and acceleration curve stats, and market using rendered video of simulation results showing superhuman skill.

I hope there is some level of cooperation.

At the very least we should have a standard set of crash or near-miss scenarios so that we can collectively learn lessons when things go wrong.

Particularly when people have already paid the price with their lives.

In addition I hope to see independent 3rd party reviewers developing their own autonomous car test suites so we can see how off-the-lot cars operate under hostile test conditions.

The potential problem with that is it reduces everyone's incentives to do it in the first place because they can just leech off of their competitors.

They do that anyway, to an extent.

That is not a bad idea ... although if they published the ones that they have now, it might give people some pause.

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