SIKO 4.0: Safety-relevant competencies and suitability for driving (partially) automated vehicles

The ongoing development of automated driving will fundamentally change road traffic. Rapp and its consortium partners have developed a catalog of the necessary driving aptitudes and driving skills for (partially) automated vehicles.

Initial situation

The ongoing development of automated driving, supported by advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and self-driving vehicles, will fundamentally change road traffic. While these technologies can reduce the risk of accidents, there is a long transition phase ahead in which automated and non-automated vehicles will shape traffic together. This will create new challenges, particularly in the middle levels of automation, which will bring both opportunities and risks. The introduction of highly automated vehicles (SAE levels 4 and 5) will place additional demands on road users and the environment. This raises the question of what new skills drivers will need in the future and how these should be integrated into driver training and further training.

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As part of the project, Rapp and its consortium partners have developed a catalog of the necessary driving aptitudes and driving skills for (partially) automated vehicles, tailored to the respective level of automation. They also identified the new duties and precautions from SAE level 4 that must be taken outside the vehicle when there is no longer a driver on board. A diagram was also drawn up to illustrate the changed requirements for vehicle drivers during the transition to higher levels of automation. With the involvement of experts from the fields of vehicle technology, road safety and traffic psychology, the results of the research work were broadly supported. In conjunction with a driving simulator study, safety-relevant content and suitable methods for the initial and further training and testing of vehicle drivers were finally compiled in order to ensure optimal preparation for driving (partially) automated vehicles. Jörg Jermann and Erik Schaarschmidt were entrusted with responsibility as deputy project managers and project team members for Rapp.

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Key data

Client: Federal Roads Office FEDRO

Period: 2021 - 2023

Partner: Swiss Council for Accident Prevention bfu / Zurich University of Applied Sciences ZHAW