White Box Autonomy
Global AV Event Observatory
White Box Autonomy is a research initiative of the M2CAT Lab at The University of Queensland, building an open, evidence-led record of how automated-driving systems behave on real roads.
Over time, it aims to support structured scenario discovery and evidence-driven evaluation of automated driving.
The Observatory brings together a growing collection of real-world automated-driving events from curated public evidence and structured regulatory records — collisions, near misses, unusual behaviour, and the successful handling of difficult situations.
Every record links to its original sources. Counts describe the evidence base; they are not safety rates or rankings.
Browse the Observatory to read individual event records.
Explore the map to see their rough spatial distribution.
Current status: automated discovery of curated events is in operation for two monitored sources on X, with AI-assisted screening. Every curated event is checked and published by a curator; broader searching is not yet active. See methodology for how events are found, and how curated and source-derived records differ.
Developed and supported by
Developed and maintained by the M2CAT Lab at The University of Queensland, with support from the Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (FT250100337) and The University of Queensland.