Building Worse Self-Driving Cars With Better Disengagement Rates

Comparing driving environments as they relate to disengagement optimization.

California’s caveat requiring self-driving tech companies to report on disengagement rates — the occasions wherein a safety driver is forced to take control of the vehicle during public testing — has become the de facto statistic for measuring industry progress and competitiveness. Flawed as this metric may be, the alternative is to have no statistical frame of reference at all…