2024 Year-End Reading, Viewing & Listening
ICYMI: My 2024 talks, papers, podcasts, essays, and interviews in review
2024 was a flurry of activity as I wrapped up my time at Carnegie Mellon. Here is a list of various talks, papers, podcasts, interviews, and essays in case you missed any and want to catch up on them.
I hope everyone has a great holiday season and a prosperous New Year! Meanwhile I’ll be taking a break from posting for a bit to enjoy the holidays myself.
January:
Paper: Koopman, P. & Widen, W., "Breaking the Tyranny of Net Risk Metrics for Automated Vehicle Safety," SCSC eJournal, Jan. 2024. (SSRN preprint | free copy)
February:
BOOK: Koopman, P., Understanding Checksums and Cyclic Redundancy Checks, 2024. (book/video/podcast)
Podcast: Center for Auto Safety: Self Driving Cars Explained
Podcast: Center for Auto Safety: Liability and Automated Vehicles (Part 1 | Part 2)
Paper: Koopman, P. & Widen, W., "Safety Ethics for the Design and Test of Automated Driving Features," IEEE Design & Test, Feb. 2024. (SSRN preprint | free copy)
March:
Podcast: NPR Airtalk: Waymo’s Robotaxi Service Expands Into Los Angeles
Podcast: Embedded FM: Math Is Not The Answer (Understanding Checksums and CRCs)
Paper: Widen, W. & Koopman, P., "The Awkward Middle for Automated Vehicles: Liability Attribution Rules When Humans and Computers Share Driving Responsibilities," Jurimetrics, Fall 2023 (published March 2024). (SSRN Preprint | free copy)
April:
Paper: Medsker et al., ACM TechBrief: Automated Vehicles, April 2024.
May:
Interview: 60 Minutes Australia: Are Tesla’s Self-Driving Cars Safe?
Talk: Challenges in Autonomous Vehicle Safety Assessment (Live video/slides)
Talk:Autonomous Vehicle Safety: More Than Net Risk (Live video/slides)
June:
Talk: Truths & Myths about Automated Vehicle Safety (video series/slides)
Podcast: Collaborative with Spencer Krause: Self-Driving Car Safety (part 1 | part 2)
Essay: Why Robotaxis Have an Inherent 3x Advantage for Reducing Passenger Harm
July:
Talk: Automated Vehicle Safety Cases: Structure & Scope (TRB ARTS video/slides)
Essay: Architectural Coupling Killed The Software Defined Vehicle
August:
Podcast: Ojo-Yoshida Report: Two Sides of the Software-Defined Vehicle Coin
Podcast: Matrckz TV: Will Autonomous Vehicles Be Better Than Human Drivers?
Paper: Koopman, P., & Widen, W., "Liability Rules for Automated Vehicles: Definitions & Details," SMU Science and Technology Law Review, 27(1), summer 2024. (SSRN | free copy)
September:
Talk: Redefining Safety for Autonomous Vehicles (video/slides/SafeComp paper)
Essay: What should expectations be for autonomous vehicle road behavior?
October:
Talk: Understanding Self-Driving Vehicle Safety (video/slides)
Paper: Troubitsyna, Alvarez, Koopman, and Trapp, "Methods and Tools for the Engineering and Assurance of Safe Autonomous Systems," Report from Dagstuhl Seminar 24151, July 2024. (free copy | Seminar home)
Essay: To Lidar or Not To Lidar
November:
Essay: Statistically Safer Does Not Really Matter for Autonomous Vehicles:
Crash-by-crash comparisons to a human driver will be the most important criterion
December:
Podcast: WSJ Future of Everything/Robotaxis (Part 1 | Part 2)
Video: WSJ Tesla autopilot crashes: The Hidden Autopilot Data That Reveals Why Teslas Crash
Podcast: Unregulated Cybercabs in Five Easy Steps (white paper with link to an Ojo-Yoshida Report podcast)
Other resources: