Standardized Autonomous Vehicle Evaluation and Deployment (SAVED) Framework
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Autonomous vehicles are rapidly expanding on U.S. roads, but oversight has not kept pace. Today’s patchwork of federal guidance and state-by-state rules leaves uneven safety expectations, inconsistent reporting, and public trust problems. This memo proposes the Standardized Autonomous Vehicle Evaluation and Deployment (SAVED) framework: a national safety baseline with state flexibility. SAVED establishes enforceable federal performance standards for safety and cybersecurity, requires independent pre-deployment evaluation (including simulation and controlled on-road testing within the vehicle’s operating domain), and creates standardized incident reporting to a national database. It also authorizes time-limited state “sandbox zones” for tightly monitored pilots and builds in equity and accessibility expectations so benefits and risks are not concentrated in only a few communities. This policy memo was originally submitted to Dr. Cynthia Bailey's CS 121: Equity and Governance for Artificial Intelligence
DOI: 10.60690/g64gh055
Author: Bempong, Andrew
Institution: Stanford University
Language: English
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7125635339
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