This report describes possible approaches to capture and categorise safety events involving low speed automated vehicles (LSAVs) as a means to provide the public with better evidence over their safety, regulators with evidence to strengthen decision-making in relation to LSAV operations, and developers with data to help improve the safety of LSAV behaviours. It is proposed that by recording safety events and road rule violations across a range of severities, considering event causation, including factors outside the ADS, reviewing external evidence, exploring the range of factors that contribute to risk before, during and after an event, initiating appropriate and proportionate responses to incidents it may be possible to analyse LSAV behaviours with sufficient depth and clarity to provide confidence to the public, regulators and developers in the safety of LSAV operations.
The full set of reports for the work packages relating to this CAVPASS project can be accessed via this webpage.
