Special Section on Risk, Resilience, and Reliability for Autonomous Vehicle Technologies: Trend, Techniques, and Challenges

Abstract

Mechanical engineering continues to dominate the design, development, and advancement of autonomous vehicle technologies, and throughout this process is likely to evolve through several risks and uncertainties. Self-driving cars are making strides in technical advancement and are maneuvering barriers through testing, regulations, and societal integration. User acceptance is put to test in the adoption of fully autonomous public transit systems. Autonomous systems, in general, must harmoniously integrate hardware, software, and humans while conforming to principles of safety, security, and reliability. The challenges range from identification of failure modes, determination of imprecise probabilities, and development of use case scenarios to integration analysis and interpretation of observations, to name a few.