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title: "Safety guidelines for autonomous mobility and delivery on the Uber Platform"
description: "Uber has updated its Safety Guidelines for Autonomous Mobility & Delivery Providers after three years of real-world autonomous vehicle deployment and onboarding new autonomous modalities. The expanded framework addresses new AI standards, advances in industry safety standards, food safety for sidewalk robots, and delivery drone safety. It works alongside regulations and industry best practices, while Uber uses a partner-specific Safety Plan assessment rather than one universal metric or threshold. The AM&D Safety Program covers planning, demonstration, and operation, with reporting on safety performance and obligations for partners at each stage. Assessment considers each partner’s planned scope and comprehensive safety approach, including testing and validation, as the platform seeks consistent, transparent, and accountable deployment across mobility and delivery use cases."
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# Safety guidelines for autonomous mobility and delivery on the Uber Platform

[Uber](https://yomu.fyi/company/uber) · May 20, 2026

**Type:** Announcement

## Summary

Uber has updated its Safety Guidelines for Autonomous Mobility & Delivery Providers after three years of real-world autonomous vehicle deployment and onboarding new autonomous modalities. The expanded framework addresses new AI standards, advances in industry safety standards, food safety for sidewalk robots, and delivery drone safety. It works alongside regulations and industry best practices, while Uber uses a partner-specific Safety Plan assessment rather than one universal metric or threshold. The AM&D Safety Program covers planning, demonstration, and operation, with reporting on safety performance and obligations for partners at each stage. Assessment considers each partner’s planned scope and comprehensive safety approach, including testing and validation, as the platform seeks consistent, transparent, and accountable deployment across mobility and delivery use cases.

## Context

Commercial regulations for autonomous vehicle operations remain under development in many places, so Uber’s program is intended to assess how potential partners approach safety for operations involving its platform while regulations evolve.

## Approach / What changed

The updated framework assesses each partner’s Safety Plan according to its planned operational scope rather than applying one universal safety metric or threshold. The program uses three phases—planning, demonstration, and operation—with safety-performance reporting and partner obligations, and expands guidance to AI standards, sidewalk-robot food safety, and delivery drones.

## Takeaways

- The guidelines incorporate three years of real-world autonomous vehicle deployment experience and collaboration with the AVSC, SAE, IEEE, and ISO.
- Uber’s assessment does not prescribe a single safety standard or common metric and threshold for all partners; it evaluates each Safety Plan on its own terms.
- The AM&D Safety Program establishes obligations across planning, demonstration, and operation, with clear reporting on safety performance.

**Tags:** [AI](https://yomu.fyi/topic/ai), [Robotics](https://yomu.fyi/topic/robotics), [Safety](https://yomu.fyi/topic/safety)

- Source: [Uber](https://www.uber.com/us/en/blog/autonomous-vehicle-safety-guidelines)
- Source URL: https://www.uber.com/us/en/blog/autonomous-vehicle-safety-guidelines
- Ingested by Yomu: 2026-09-12T20:02:09.510Z

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