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Autonomous vehicles Self-driving car vs human: testing an auto braking system with a real person

Open-access content E+T Editorial Team — Mon 30 Oct 2023 — updated 20 Nov 2023

Chess and his team at dRisk invited us along to their latest set of testing to see if self driving cars are safer than humans...

... By having a person step out in front of an autonomous vehicle to see whether the auto braking system will kick in or if the Tesla will hit the person.

Image credit | Dreamstime

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