2022/08/26 by Francesca Favarò, Favaro, Francesca, Keith Hutchings +7
Engineering · Psychology · #Computers and Society (cs.CY) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Human-Automation Interaction and Safety #Robotics (cs.RO) #Traffic and Road Safety #Vehicle emissions and performance
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2208.12833
openalex publication_date 2022/08/26 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
This report presents Waymo's proposal for a systematic fatigue risk management framework that addresses prevention, monitoring, and mitigation of fatigue-induced risks during on-road testing of ADS technology. The proposed framework remains flexible to incorporate continuous improvements, and was informed by state of the art practices, research, learnings, and experience (both internal and external to Waymo). Fatigue is a recognized contributory factor in a substantial fraction of on-road crashes involving human drivers, and mitigation of fatigue-induced risks is still an open concern researched world-wide. While the proposed framework was specifically designed in relation to on-road testing of SAE Level 4 ADS technology, it has implications and applicability to lower levels of automation as well.