The main requirements for the successful and extensive introduction of L3AD systems on the automotive market are:

  • Further enhancement of the reliability level for all road users
  • Timely identification of scenarios that cannot be controlled by the automated driving system
  • Definition of intuitive, safe, trustable and user-friendly methods for managing the hand-over phases from automated driving to human driving and vice versa
  • Enhancement of the overall level of active safety
  • General improvement of automated vehicle user acceptance
  • Development of simulation/co-simulation and post-processing tools for the systematic, cost- and time-effective assessment of the automated driving system performance