• How can HARA methods be adapted to address the complexity of AI-driven decision-making, multi-sensor fusion, and dynamic operational design domains?
• What strategies are most effective for designing fail-operational architectures and detecting latent faults in the hardware and software layers of autonomous systems?
• What techniques and tools can be used to rigorously validate machine learning models for functional safety compliance, particularly under edge-case and rare-event conditions?

What tests provide convincing evidence that AVs are safe enough to operate independently on public streets? Internationally utilized standards like ISO 21448, UL 4600, and ISO 26262 prescribe evaluation of risk in order to define acceptance criteria for validation and field monitoring. This presentation offers the Streetscope Collision Hazard Measure (SHM) as a leading indicator for collision risk that can define validation criteria within AV safety cases.

• Get a better understanding of the development of quantifiable, objective criteria for AV collision avoidance and their role in ensuring safe AV operation
• Explore SHMs utility in defining and validating AV safety goals, including simulation, real-world testing, and scenario-based analysis
• Gain insights into how safety validation criteria influence AV operational strategies to prevent collisions in diverse driving environments

• How can current validation methods for autonomous driving systems be improved to account for edge cases and rare events?
• What roles do real-world testing and simulation play in achieving comprehensive system validation, and how can we balance the two?
• How are current regulatory frameworks ensuring that AVs meet safety standards before deployment? What additional oversight is needed?
• How do we validate the decision-making algorithms of autonomous vehicles in unpredictable or mixed-traffic scenarios?
• What tools or methodologies are missing to better assess the long-term reliability and robustness of autonomous systems in diverse environments?

Presenting the results of our World Cafés: The moderators summarize the key takeaways of their World Café Round Tables on the main stage and share the main findings with all attendees.