Autonomous vehicles are already a reality on some of our streets and could become a major part of future transportation systems. Safety, of course, is the main concern, as with all vehicles. To help evaluate and improve its autonomous driving technology, U.S. driverless vehicle company Waymo has created a virtual representation of human driver behavior in near-crash situations.

The new model is open source and publicly available.

Waymo created a new computer model to help it better understand how humans behave in crash scenarios that its robotaxis encounter.

Waymo built a computer model simulating human driver behavior in crash scenarios to benchmark robotaxi safety, backed by 170 million miles of operational

Autonomous vehicles are already a reality on some of our streets and could become a major part of future transportation systems. Safety, of course, is the main concern, as with…