Today we are joined by Autonomous Mobility Strategist and Stantec GenerationAV Founder, Corey Clothier, to discuss Stantec’s approach to measuring and assessing the safety and risk of autonomous vehicles prior to deployment. Corey specializes in helping people solve operational and go-to-market challenges for all things AV, from wheelchairs and personal mobility devices to heavy trucks and delivery robots.
In this episode, we learn about the common challenges companies face when it comes to developing and deploying their AV and how Stantec uses military and aviation best practices to remove human error and ensure safety and reliability in AV operations. Corey explains the importance of collecting edge cases and shares his take on why the autonomous mobility industry is so meaningful. Key Points From This Episode:
Tweetables:“For me, is a safe and reliable service that actually can perform the job that it's supposed to.” — @coreyclothier “Most of the autonomous vehicles that I've been working with, even since the beginning, most of them are pretty safe.” — @coreyclothier “When you start to talk to people from around the world, they absolutely have different attitudes related to autonomy and robotics.” — @coreyclothier “What's exciting though is about dRISK it gives us a quantifiable risk measure, something that we can look at as a baseline and then something we can see as we make improvements and do mitigation strategies.” — @coreyclothier “The common challenges really are being able to handle all the edge cases in the operating environment that they're going to deploy.” — @coreyclothier