Episode #17
Is 99.9% safe good enough for robotaxis? | Phil Koopman of Carnegie Mellon University (Professor Emeritus)
Sep 30, 202635 minS4
In this episode of The Garage, host John Heinlein interviews safety expert Phil Koopman on the complex challenges of scaling autonomous vehicle fleets from hundreds to hundreds of thousands. Koopman identifies key hurdles, including mass software failures, broad safety definitions, infinite edge cases, and legal accountability gaps, stressing that machine learning's lack of common sense requires human oversight for rare events.
