Estimation and Analysis of Minimum Traveling Distance in Self-driving Vehicle to Prove Their Safety on Road Test

Abstract

Self-driving cars as a new technology need time to test their safety. How to supervise the burgeoning autonomous vehicles is a new challenge for the countries that support this technology. How to effectively manage the development of the automatic driving and ensure traffic safety will certainly be one of the important tasks on traffic management in the future. At present, there is no complete assessment system for the evaluation of the standard and safety performance of autonomous vehicles. Under these circumstances, what kind of requirements does the self-driving vehicles on road test need to achieve can be authorized to formal use for the public is a serious question now. This paper uses the method of mathematical statistics to estimate the lower limit of how many distances the Chinese autonomous vehicles need to drive on the road test to provide relevant reference for the traffic management department.