How should insurance companies, fleet operators, engineering firms, and such government agencies as NHTSA measure the safety of automated driver-assistance systems (ADAS), the Tier 1, Tier 2, and greater building blocks of full autonomy, anyway?

Founders of a five-year-old tech startup named Streetscope believe they have the answer.

Streetscope has built a traffic safety intelligence platform that measures ADAS-equipped cars and trucks everywhere, every day, without waiting for a crash to happen, says Mark Goodstein, the company’s CEO and co-founder.

“The industry is flying blind,” he says. “It has a dependence on backward-looking metrics like collisions, and to some extent, with disengagements which have nothing to do with safety. “Meanwhile, on the human side, we have this reliance on a readily available set of data on harsh events, like steering and braking or accelerating. But those events don’t correlate to collisions either, and, unfortunately, we are still dependent on using those.”

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You can find the original Autoweek article here.

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Image by Streetscope

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