Trust is earned.
Trustworthiness is measured.
Kinetic Energy
The energy a vehicle carries. The focal variable in safety — the agent of harm in every crash and every outcome.
Tolerance
What the surrounding environment can manage — through conflict, containment, and absorption — when things go wrong.
The governing relationship

When energy stays within tolerance, the system is forgiving. When it exceeds it, harm becomes possible.

A trustworthy system governs that margin with discipline — not too thin, not unnecessarily wide.

Speed limits are the oldest version of this relationship — a proxy built for human averages. AVs already reason about this at a granular level. Kinetic Logic builds the ruler that translates it back to human scale.

The hex is the tolerance of the surrounding environment.
The arcs are kinetic energy carried by the vehicle.
The gap between them is the margin.
The AV is Competent
Read the framework →
Built for
AV Developers
Translate your stack's complexity into the trustworthiness riders care about.
Fleet Operators
See where margins run thin across routes, conditions, and AV providers.
Autonomy Platforms
A shared trustworthiness signal across simulation, deployment, and domain.
Product
Static Foundation
Tolerance File
Per-road-segment nominal tolerance thresholds that plug into existing map and planning stacks.
Dynamic Layer
Tolerance Model
Adjusts nominal tolerance based on current conditions — weather, road users, and temporary hazards — in simulation or on the road.
Use it to
01
Incident Context
Show whether a collision stayed within tolerance — or crossed it.
02
Test Prioritization
Point testing at the routes and conditions where margin is thinnest.
03
ODD Expansion
Evaluate whether margin holds in faster, denser, or less forgiving domains.
04
Margin Benchmarks
Compare margin across routes, conditions, and operators on common ground.
05
Shared Signal
Give every team — engineering, safety, product, policy — the same number.
Coming Soon

Beyond vehicles. Physical AI needs the same lens.

Robotics, drones, industrial automation — any system governing kinetic energy in the real world.