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The Responsibility-Sensitive Safety (RSS) model offers provable safety for vehicle behaviors such as minimum safe following distance. However, handling worst-case variability and uncertainty may significantly lower vehicle permissiveness, and in some situations safety cannot be guaranteed. Digging deeper into Newtonian mechanics, we identify complications that result from considering vehicle status, road geometry and environmental parameters. An especially challenging situation occurs if these parameters change during the course of a collision avoidance maneuver such as hard braking. As part of our analysis, we expand the original RSS following distance equation to account for edge cases involving potential collisions mid-way through a braking process.
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Koopman, P., Osyk, B., Weast, J. (2019). Autonomous Vehicles Meet the Physical World: RSS, Variability, Uncertainty, and Proving Safety. In: Romanovsky, A., Troubitsyna, E., Bitsch, F. (eds) Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security. SAFECOMP 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11698. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26601-1_17
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