Sustainable Mobility Center is a cross-campus effort of the Precourt Institute for Energy

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Safety

This pillar is dedicated to pioneering cutting-edge methodologies to guarantee the safety of emerging mobility technologies, such as autonomous vehicles, and novel mobility paradigms such as Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand. It is crucial that such innovations do not compromise the safety, health, and overall welfare to society. 

Achieving this goal requires the development of entirely new approaches to evaluate and uphold the safety of AI-driven physical systems and complex, largely automated socio-technical systems on a large scale. This not only entails ensuring the physical safety of individuals, but also safeguarding against potential societal impacts and ethical considerations inherent in the adoption of these technologies.

Faculty

  • Grace Gao

    Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics

  • Mykel Kochenderfer

    Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI and Associate Professor, by courtesy, of Computer Science

  • Marco Pavone

    Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy and Associate Professor, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering & of Computer Science