Making AVs Safer

In an effort to make AVs safer, researchers at the Driving Safety Research Institute at the University of Iowa wanted to learn the challenges they encounter when operating on rural roads. Watch this video to see what they learned after more than three years of testing.

“We’ve chosen to own our ruralness,” says Daniel McGehee , director of the DSRI, which was the first in the nation to study automated driving in rural conditions. “We want to look at increasing people’s quality of life through adding another dimension of transportation that’s not available today, that will allow rural folks to extend their lives in a social and healthy way.”