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Assuring safety of autonomous vehicles requires that the vehicle control system can perceive the situation in the environment and react to actions of other entities. One approach to vehicle safety assurance is based on the assumption that hazardous sequences of events should be identified during hazard analysis and then some means of hazard avoidance and mitigation, like barriers, should be designed and implemented. Another approach is to design a system which is able to dynamically examine the risk associated with possible actions and then select the safest action to carry it out. Dynamic risk assessment requires maintaining the situation awareness and prediction of possible future situations. We analyse how these two approaches can be applied for autonomous vehicles and what strategies can be used for safety argumentation.
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Wardziński, A. (2008). Safety Assurance Strategies for Autonomous Vehicles. In: Harrison, M.D., Sujan, MA. (eds) Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security. SAFECOMP 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5219. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87698-4_24
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