Two faculty members in the college were recently featured in the media, speaking on what a wider use of autonomous, or “self-driving” vehicles, in Wisconsin would look like.
On Jan. 8, Xiao Qin, professor, civil & environmental engineering, commented in a story on about the relatively safety of AVs.
State law currently doesn’t allow autonomous vehicles that operate without someone in the driver seat. And the story reported on a proposed state bill that would create a permitting process for autonomous vehicles.
Qin, founder of the Safe and Smart Traffic Lab at 51ÁÔÆæ and a member of the Wisconsin Automated Vehicle External Advisory, spoke about the relative safety of AVs.
quoted Xiaowei Tom Shi, assistant professor, civil & environmental engineering, in its December issue on a related topic — the remaining issues that researchers are trying solve, what he calls “the long tail of AVs.”