PRESENTER: Thomas Spillmann, Responsible for Road Safety, Federal Roads Office (ASTRA), Switzerland
Developments in automated driving have the potential to fundamentally change road traffic and can reduce the risk of accidents. It can be assumed that in the future, traffic will become increasingly complex, traffic space will become denser, vehicle control will become more automated and the human-machine-interaction will become more demanding.
It is clear that the tasks and demands on the safety-relevant skills of drivers will change significantly. From the perspective of driver education and training, the central question is what future drivers of (partially) automated vehicles will have to be able to do at all or, what they will have to be able to do additionally.
There is an urgent need to determine new competence requirements based on different levels of automation according to current knowledge and to anticipate them continuously in good time in order to integrate them into driver training and courses for experienced drivers.
In this context, not only the safety-relevant training content (e.g. technical functionality of the automation systems), but also the appropriate teaching methods (e.g. manual, simulation, tutorial, etc.) for training and testing are of particular importance.
Within the framework of this project, a compilation of safety-relevant contents and methods for training and testing of drivers of automated vehicles is being carried out.
Based on the automation level SAE-L2 and the associated current practice of driver training and driving tests, the project pursues the following four main objectives:
1) Creation of a catalogue of the necessary driving aptitude and driving skills for driving a (partially) automated vehicle depending on its level of automation.
2) To determine who will have to assume which duties and precautions outside the vehicle from SAE-L4 onwards of there is no longer a driver in the vehicle.
3) Development of a diagram showing the changed requirements for the driver from the previous level of automation to the new level of automation of the vehicle.
4) Compilation of safety-relevant contents and methods for the initial and further training as well as the driving test of vehicle drivers for vehicles with automation systems.
This project was developed by ASTRA (the Federal Roads Office), one of our long standing Swiss Effective members.
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- Time: 23 January 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 pm CET
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