Why Companies Don’t Share AV Crash Data – And How They Could

By Susan Kelley, Cornell Chronicle

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have been tested as taxis for decades in San Francisco, Pittsburgh and around the world, and trucking companies have enormous incentives to adopt them.

But AV companies rarely share the crash- and safety-related data that is crucial to improving the safety of their vehicles – mostly because they have little incentive to do so.

Is AV safety data an auto company’s intellectual asset or a public good? It can be both – with a little tweaking, according to a team of Cornell researchers.

The team has created a roadmap outlining the barriers and opportunities to encourage AV companies to share the data to make AVs safer, from untangling public versus private data knowledge, to regulations to creating incentive programs.

Read more in the Cornell Chronicle.