What is Responsibility-Sensitive Safety?
A formal model defining safe distances and behaviors an autonomous system must maintain around other road users.
safe gap kept · never closed
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Check responsibility-sensitive safety: the planner must stay inside the RSS envelope before we enable the next OTA pilot route.
In the illustration
The rear cart speeds up and the boom extends to its longer safe gap; the lead cart brakes and the rear cart brakes too, so the boom never collapses past its mark.
Encode the responsibility-sensitive safety rules for safe following distance in your engineering tools as a check the simulator runs on every planned trajectory, and log each violation with speed and gap.
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