Timothy L. McMurry

Do time of day and day of week matter when comparing Waymo's automated driving system and human crash involvement rates?

OBJECTIVE While comparative studies have shown that human crash risk is higher at night, especially during the weekend, it has been difficult to quantify crash rates by these temporal dimensions due to a lack of human exposure data, namely vehicle miles traveled (VMT). The objective of this study was to integrate a nov...

High-resolution urban fatal crash rate benchmarks for automated driving system assessment.

OBJECTIVE This study established high-resolution, localized fatal crash rate benchmarks across the 50 most populous U.S. urban areas to facilitate future safety performance assessment of automated driving systems (ADS). This study asks the research question: what localized fatal crash trends emerge when analyzing typol...

BUILDING SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS ON THE CRASH SAFETY PERFORMANCE OF AUTOMATED DRIVING SYSTEMS