Analysis of draft EU ADS Performance Requirements

TL;DR

This paper critically evaluates the draft EU ADS performance requirements, identifying potential issues and proposing improvements to enhance safety and societal acceptance of automated vehicles.

Contribution

It provides a detailed analysis of the draft regulation, highlighting problems and offering practical recommendations for better performance standards.

Findings

Identified potential safety issues in current draft requirements.

Proposed specific improvements to enhance regulation effectiveness.

Highlighted the importance of societal acceptance considerations.

Abstract

Recently, the European Commission published draft regulation for uniform procedures and technical specification for the type-approval of motor vehicles with an automated driving system (ADS). While the draft regulation is welcome progress for an industry ready to deploy life saving automated vehicle technology, we believe that the requirements can be further improved to enhance the safety and societal acceptance of automated vehicles (AVs). In this paper, we evaluate the draft regulation's performance requirements that would impact the Dynamic Driving Task (DDT). We highlight potential problems that can arise from the current proposed requirements and propose practical recommendations to improve the regulation.