Consultant Services

The autonomous vehicle landscape is a rapidly changing kaleidoscope of interwoven issues related to technologies, systems, vehicle insurance companies, and lawyers. This landscape could change considerably in just a few months. To help your organization navigate the aforementioned issues, I offer the following research and writing services:

  • Support trucking to navigate autonomous vehicle safety issues with Congress, their staffers, and the public. This support could be in the form of strategic plan inputs, white papers, brochures, proposals, and newspaper editorials
  • Assist automobile insurance companies define and quantify autonomous vehicle risk factors, such as determining accident predictor variables for different autonomous vehicle technologies; ascertain the effect of mandatory rating factors; assess the SAE vehicle automation levels on insurance costs, among others.
  • Work with lawyers to determine autonomous vehicle product liability/litigation, allocation of fault between vehicle and driver, as well negligence liability. These topics would vary across the spectrum of autonomous vehicle systems and technologies.

Photo: Dr. Everson receiving a Tibbett’s award from Senator John Kerry for a project regarding collision warning systems for inner-city transit buses. Project awarded by the Federal Transit Administration.

About Dr. Everson

Prior to forming this autonomous vehicle consultant practice, Dr. Jeffrey Everson was director of business development for QinetiQ North America’s Technology Solutions Group (previously Foster-Miller, Inc.).

Dr. Everson has been the principal investigator for collision warning systems for automobiles and inner-city transit buses. These programs were awarded by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Federal Transit Administration (FTA). For his work on developing a collision warning system for inner-city transit buses, Everson was the first U.S. Department of Transportation contractor to win an SBIR Tibbetts Award.

Previously Dr. Everson held senior scientist positions at Battelle Memorial Institute, The Analytic Sciences Corporation (TASC), Honeywell Electro Optics Systems Division, and Itek Optical Systems Division.

He holds a PhD in physics from Boston College and a MS/BS in physics from Northeastern University.

Contact

For more information about how JHEverson Consulting can help your company with autonomous vehicles, please contact Jeff Everson.

JHEverson Consulting is based in the Boston area but consults for clients throughout North America.