Introduction

1. Technical Layer

2. Interaction Layer

3. Economic Layer

4. Legal Layer

5. Social Layer

Operating conditions under which a given driving automation system or feature thereof is specifically designed to function.

Including, but not limited to, environmental, geographical, and time-of-day restrictions, and/or the requisite presence or absence of certain traffic or roadway characteristic

All of the real-time operational and tactical functions required to operate a vehicle in on-road traffic, excluding the strategic functions such as trip scheduling and selection of destinations and waypoints.

• subtasks of the DDT

  • monitoring the driving environment

    • detecting

    • recognizing

    • classifying objects and events

    • preparing to respond as needed

  • executing a response

• Sensing

• Perception & Localisation

• Behaviour Generation

• Trajectory Planning

• Actuation / HMI

• National law is based on European law, which is based on international convention

• On national level: German law (Straßenverkehrsordnung (StVO))

• On European level: European law

• On international level: Vienna Convention

• Next to laws in traffic product liability needs to be considered

• Art. 8 (1) VC: “Every moving vehicle or combination of vehicles shall have a driver.”

• Art. 8 (5) VC: “Every driver shall at all times be able to control his vehicle or to guide his animals.”

• Update of these articles in 2016:

• Art. 8 (5) VC: “Systems, which have an influence on guiding the vehicle (...) are compliant, when they can be overridden or deactivated by the driver”

• Art. 13 (1) VC: “Every driver of a vehicle shall in all circumstances have his vehicle under control so as to be able to exercise due and proper care and to be at all times in a position to perform all manoeuvres required of him [...]”.

• Driver must be able to override the ADAS function