The safety benefits of autonomous vehicles (AVs) stem primarily from the promised elimination of human error. By nature, human drivers are prone to distraction; remove the human from the equation, and you remove the source of 94% of all crashes. That’s the end game; in the interim phase, while these AVs are being developed, tested and validated, safety drivers are employed to keep a close eye on things.
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