Sentence examples for a safety driver from inspiring English sources

"It demonstrates that it is valuable to have a safety driver in the vehicle while testing, which is something we've always believed," said Chris Urmson, director of Google's self-driving car program.

A safety driver remains in the TaxiBot, and he also drives the vehicle to and from the aircraft.With the high price of aviation fuel a tonne can cost more than $1,000 the savings at a busy airport could be large.

The rides will all be monitored by a safety driver.

One is for passenger testing with a safety driver and the other is for passenger testing without a safety driver in the vehicle.

The car was in self-driving mode, and there was a safety driver behind the wheel who failed to intervene.

UPDATE: Google tells us that the cars will still have a safety driver for this round of testing.

One was that manufacturers record and report every "disengagement": incidents when a human safety driver had to take control of a vehicle for safety reasons.

The pods, which resemble a Smart Car crossed with a Nissan Micra, will be fitted with a removable steering wheel, brake and accelerator pedals, and will require a human "safety driver" at all times.

And our reaction times aren't the best, but if it's clear that the car isn't going to respond, or has responded wrongly, a trained safety driver will react correctly.

Uber's new fleet of XC90s will go further than the existing test vehicles, in that they will incorporate redundant systems for braking and steering that will allow them to operate without a human safety driver on board.

Combined with an inattentive safety driver, this failure resulted in Herzberg's death.