Waymo has presented a brand-new report on Drivership, a ‘framing concept that helps unpack the complexity behind the evaluation of good driving behaviour’.
The concept looks to evaluate driving quality through a combination of both exhibited driving behaviour and societal expectations.
Utilising the concept to further advance technological achievements of autonomous vehicles, Waymo’s Drivership concept looks to bring questions of driving quality and expectation to the fore to enable a safe and efficient transport ecosystem.
Drivership also aims to evaluate driving behaviours often used in the process of autonomous vehicle training, with WAYMO providing a key example in the case of its NIEON model, which itself is used to represent the collision avoidance response performance expected from a Non-Impaired human driver with their Eyes ON the conflict.
The new paper marks WAYMO’s first formal framing of the Drivership concept, with the company stating it will conduct further research on the subject in the years to come.
