Scenario database for highly automated driving functions

With the opening of the Road Traffic Act 2017 and the ongoing draft legislation on autonomous driving, the normative course for driving functions with a higher degree of automation has been and will be set at the national level. What manufacturers, suppliers, science-related research and science are missing in this context is a central scenario database.

Such a system could bundle traffic, environmental and road data for the evaluation of the traffic safety effects of the use of automated driving functions. So far, only a few singular data sources are available, which are only accessible to everyone to a limited extent. A merged database could generate a great deal of knowledge, on the basis of which the need for regulation can be determined and democratic debates can be conducted.