Homologation of automated driving functions: worldwide overview, customer acceptance and strategic aspects

Homologation of automated driving functions presents a huge challenge for their market introduction. Existing regulatory safety frameworks applicable to conventional vehicles and their components are insufficient to fully assess the operational characteristics of current and future automated vehicle technologies. With increasing automation, vehicles transform into cyber-physical systems that no longer require a human driver; therefore, new safety challenges will have to be considered. This presentation discusses those challenges, provides an overview of the current regulatory and standardization work in progress and explains the possibilities for how to approve automated vehicles for public roads today.