Critical reasoning: We also use simulation to understand how the software would behave in the event of potential collisions. Given the following scenario, what variables would you manipulate to try and make a collision occur? Say for example, the self-driving car is approaching an intersection with a yellow light for their direction of travel, there is also a car on the road following closely behind it in the same direction, in the same lane. The two cars come to a stop without incident in this example. What variables would you manipulate in simulation to cause a collision?

Autonomous systems are systems that take a series of signals from the outside, analyze them and carry out actions according to how to handle them.

In that case you have two cars one behind the other at a short distance a traffic light with a yellow light is approaching.

Some parameters can be modified to cause the crash:

The car in front accelerates to pass the traffic light, but the traffic light changed to red, in this case if the car behind also accelerated, there may not be enough distance to stop and crash.

You can change the traffic light to green whereby the first car continues its speed, but the traffic light time changes very quickly to red, whereby the first car stops, but the car behind cannot stop.

The car behind accelerates to also pass the yellow light, but turns red and the first one crashes to a stop.

We change some condition of the pavement after the first vehicle passes, for example wetting the pavement, which decreases the coefficient of friction, consequently the second vehicle does not have time to stop.

We can appreciate that if there is not a good and fast communication between the two vehicles, it is easy for them to crash.

In conclusion, using kinematic reasoning, the answers for the changes that can test shocks are found:

The second vehicle increases speed and the first must brake sharply

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