Title: Human-Centered Autonomous Vehicle Systems: Principles of Effective Shared Autonomy,
Abstract: Building effective, enjoyable, and safe autonomous vehicles is a lot harder
than has historically been considered. The reason is that, simply put, an
autonomous vehicle must interact with human beings. This interaction is not a
robotics problem nor a machine learning problem nor a psychology problem nor an
economics problem nor a policy problem. It is all of these problems put into
one. It challenges our assumptions about the limitations of human beings at
their worst and the capabilities of artificial intelligence systems at their
best. This work proposes a set of principles for designing and building
autonomous vehicles in a human-centered way that does not run away from the
complexity of human nature but instead embraces it. We describe our development
of the Human-Centered Autonomous Vehicle (HCAV) as an illustrative case study
of implementing these principles in practice.