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safety · May 24, 2026 · By Oz Gultekin

Robotaxis Need Real Roads to Learn How Humans Panic

Testing autonomous vehicles in actual traffic necessary to understand unpredictable human driver behavior.

ARWF dimensions

Existential criticality: Does the threat involve irreversible systemic failure?
Probability vectoring: Theoretical, or active proof of concept?
Timeline imminence: How close to current deployment?
Mitigation gap: Identified solution, or currently unaligned?

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