Driving and Being a Safety Operator

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Francesca is the safety best practices lead at Waymo's risk management framework. She says driving and being a safety operator are actually two quite different tasks. The solutions will be used case dependent, so you need to cater a framework like this to the exact operation that you're running with. Francesca: "I'm excited for a future which I don't have to drive them around right?"

How has emerging driving automation technology been developed and tested on public roads with such a relatively strong safety record? As Waymo's Francesca Favarò explains on this week's episode it has everything to do with the humans behind the wheel. On this week's episode we dive into how Waymo manages fatigue risk among safety operators, why it's so important, and where the landscape of safety standards has room to improve.