Two faculty members in the college were recently featured in the media, speaking on what a wider use of autonomous, or “self-driving” vehicles, in Wisconsin would look like.
On Jan. 8, Xiao Qin, professor, civil & environmental engineering, commented in a story on Wisconsin Public Radio about the relatively safety of AVs.
State law currently doesn’t allow autonomous vehicles that operate without someone in the driver seat. And the story reported on a proposed state bill that would create a permitting process for autonomous vehicles.
Qin, founder of the Safe and Smart Traffic Lab at UWM and a member of the Wisconsin Automated Vehicle External Advisory, spoke about the relative safety of AVs.
Milwaukee Magazine quoted Xiaowei Tom Shi, assistant professor, civil & environmental engineering, in its December issue on a related topic — the remaining issues that researchers are trying solve, what he calls “the long tail of AVs.”