Impact of ITS advances on the industry Chapter | 9 1059.3 Evolution of safety and reliability requirements with
increasing automation
Safety, reliability, robustness and availability requirements evolve toward au-
tomated and autonomous driving. Further, users will only accept and buy au-
tomated vehicles, when they trust the technology. Therefore ITS puts focus on
features that allow making decisions more like humans, that is, by including
cognitive skills, by applying human-centered artificial intelligence (AI), by non-
causal reasoning on safe and reliable platforms of cost-efficient vehicles. We
see this as a prerequisite to widely open the future market of automated and
autonomous driving.
Despite the many required advances compared to the technical and techno-
logical state of the art, the ITS presuppose that the connected and automated
vehicle will come: There are many reasons and use cases for this confidence,
as indicated in Fig. 9.3 in view of connected cars, and in Fig. 9.4 in view
of automated vehicles. No doubt, the highest benefits for society are given
by a combination of automated and connected vehicles with electrification.
Meanwhile, in addition to the automotive and their supplier industries, there
are new players, for example Waymo, working on automated, even autono-
mous vehicles. Due to the strong importance of the automotive industry for
Europe, additional endeavors are needed to keep pace with the US and Asian
competition. Using cutting-edge technologies, ITS is striving to achieve real
progress toward efficient, well-performing, safe, and reliable automation that
is available also in critical situations, thus to earn the benefits of automation
listed in Fig. 9.4.
FIGURE 9.3 Reasons and use cases for connected vehicles.