Autonomous Vehicles Safety Provision Before and During Operation on Public Roads

The article analyzes the admission process, as well as the procedure and composition of the required reporting on the operation of autonomous vehicles in Russia, the USA, and the countries of the European Union. The methods and relevant standards used by advanced developers of autonomous vehicles to ensure safety are described. Approaches to ensuring the safety of a highly automated vehicle developed by 'BaseTracK Rus' LLC are presented. The results of experimental operation of the developed highly automated vehicle on public roads are analyzed. Based on the comprehensive analysis, an approach is proposed to assess and improve the safety level of autonomous vehicles during operation, which will allow achieving a high level of safety before implementation on public roads, timely identify problems with the current version of the software and hardware of the automated control system during operation and effectively generate requests for improvements and improvements of the developed solutions for improving system performance, reliability and, accordingly, safety.