Checkride Questions

Question 1

What are new guidelines that occurred as a result of the new release?

Answer 1

Hero will hold yielding to VRU that is still crossing in the crosswalk when Hero has a fresh green light
Operators will be queried to confirm if an entity is an approaching EV

Question 2

What does ODD stand for, and what is it used for?

Answer 2

Operational Design Domain
Robot’s capabilities & limitations

Question 3

What is the difference between the ODD and the Operator Guidelines?

Answer 3

ODD is about what the autonomous mode can handle.
Operator Guidelines tells us when we need to disengage or exercise caution.

Question 4

Can you name three things currently WITHIN our ODD?

Question 5

Three things outside of ODD?

Question 6

What is our rain policy?

Question 7

How many LIDAR are on the vehicles? What is LiDar? Range?

Question 8

How many Radar? What is Radar? Range?

Question 9

How many cameras? What are they used for?

Question 10

What is IMU?

Question 11

What are the significant changes in this release?

Question 12

How does Zoox conduct offline validation?

Question 13

Why do we do structured testing?

Question 14

How does a software become a public release? What is the public release process?

Question 15

What level of autonomy are our highlander vehicles?

Question 16

What is the planner? What does it do? (this is high level)

Question 17

What is the perception system? What type of hardware data is analyzed to make it work?

Question 18

What is the vision system? What type of hardware data is analyzed to make it work?

Question 19

What is localization?

Question 20

What is the ZRN and how is it made? What types of things are pre-built into the ZRN?

Question 21

What is a NoGo?

Question 22

What is Coredash?

Question 23

What does the V,L,R stand for above agents?

Question 24

What is the difference between dynamic vs static?

Question 25

What is X-Ray?

Question 26

What is the decision trajectory? What does it look like in Coredash?

Question 27

What is the smoother corridor? What does it look like in Coredash?

Question 28

What does a red gate in Coredash mean?

Question 29

What is TeleOps and what are they used for?

Question 30

Why do we have a checklist?

Question 31

As a SWO, what will you be requesting from the VO during the checklist process?

Question 32

Do Operators clean the sensors?

Question 33

What is ZELLO used for?

Question 34

What happens if you do not set the correct ZRN? How would you be able to tell?

Question 35

Where do you first go to look for troubleshooting help?

Question 36

When should you post something on L3 ground control?

Question 37

Where do we log troubleshooting time after the mission?

Question 38

When everything fails, what is the best troubleshooting action to try?

Question 39

What would you do if no one responded on L3GC?

Question 40

Why is it important to maintain open lines of communication between the SWO and VO?

Question 41

What types of things is the SWO communicating to a VO?

Question 42

What happens to each comment you submit after the mission is over?

Question 43

What types of language do you NOT want to write in the logger?

Question 44

What is the GoPro used for?

Question 45

What do you do with a SD card at the beginning and end of a mission?

Question 46

What are the first three rendition groups in Coredash?

Question 47

Which rendition groups do you start first in Coredash? Can you start whichever ones you want at anytime?

Question 48

Which rendition groups initializes the first step of Localization?

Question 49

Why do we use Zalendar?

Question 50

Who is the best person to reach out to when you have questions about your Zalendar ticket?

Question 51

When should Zalendar mission tickets be closed?

Question 52

Who is on the INCIDENT response call tree?

Question 53

Hypothetical: What would you do if you were rear-ended in an intersection? (PACER)

Question 54

What does ZFR stand for and what is it? Which type of ZFR would you submit for an INCIDENT? How about a SAFETY EVENT?