Pith Number

pith:KQN73OVY

pith:2026:KQN73OVY2MVR42TPZOYNU2MGAU

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In the Driver's Seat: A Multi-Company Study on the Reality of Autonomous Driving System Testing

Dietmar Pfahl, Federica Sarro, Johannes Betz, Mohammad Reza Mousavi, Qunying Song, Yuan Gao

arxiv:2607.15820 v1 · 2026-07-17 · cs.SE

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\pithnumber{KQN73OVY2MVR42TPZOYNU2MGAU}

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

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First computed	2026-07-20T01:19:12.040465Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

541bfdbab8d32b1e6a6fcbb0da6986050be489df36ef57437ca476e453e941f6

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.15820 · arxiv_version: 2607.15820v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.15820 · pith_short_12: KQN73OVY2MVR · pith_short_16: KQN73OVY2MVR42TP · pith_short_8: KQN73OVY

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KQN73OVY2MVR42TPZOYNU2MGAU \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 541bfdbab8d32b1e6a6fcbb0da6986050be489df36ef57437ca476e453e941f6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "99acd390ce530fb25a3c5f78087bf1c7b5c1e1889877d42bdac6f55653a966ae",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-17T10:28:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "932da45eefb79e55d2a356909490d9209953129cf343f3de5758943436d243a6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.15820",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}