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Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs

Automotive and Mobility Industries Unit

3rd EU mobility package: autonomous vehicles

Internal market, Industry,

Entrepreneurship and SMEs

EU strategy for automated/connected mobility

• A common EU vision

• Three main pillars:

1. Developing key technologies and infrastructures

2. Ensuring automated and connected mobility is safe

3. Adressing societal concerns,in particular jobs,skills and ethical issues

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52018DC0283

Common vision: Focus on SAE levels 3-4

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Lateral or longitudinal

control is accompised by

the system

System has longitudinal

and lateral control in a

specific use case

System has longitudinal AND lateral control in a specific use case. System recognises the performance limits and requests driver to resume control within a sufficient time margin

System can cope with all situations automatically in a defined use case

System can cope with all situations automatically during the entire journey. No driver required.

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Assisted Conditional automation

High automation Full automation

MONITORED DRIVING NON- MONITORED DRIVING

Eyes on

Hands on TEMPORARY HANDS OFF

Eyes off

Hands off

Driver only

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Already on the market 2020-2030

Internal market, Industry,

Entrepreneurship and SMEs

• New automated/connected vehicles issues: perception,

longitudinal and lateral control, driver monitoring, Black box, platooning, cybersecurity.

• Main measures For "classical" vehicles • Intelligent speed adaptation (AEBS)

• Autonomous emergency braking for cars and vans

• Lane keeping systems for cars and vans

• Cyclist/pedestrian detection on the front/side of trucks/buses

• Direct vision for trucks/buses

• Tyre Pressuree Monitoring Systems for trucks/buses

• Reversing Camera

• Driver attentiveness

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52018PC0286

Implementation: New Vehicle general safety Regulation

Implementation: Guidelines for new vehicle technologies

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Manual driving: Driver drives -Shall not cause accident -predictable behaviour -respect trafic rules -Allow interaction with other road users

Automated driving: System drives: -Shall not cause accident. -predictable behaviour -respect trafic rules -Allow interaction with other road users -Inform the driver/Passenger -Is able to detect its limits

Activation/ deactivation

Takeover request

Minimum risk manoeuvre

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Entrepreneurship and SMEs

Legal issues for automated vehicles or for AI?

Liability issues for autonomous vehicles?

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• Liability regimes managed by Member states

• Black boxes for automated vehicles

• Revision of vehicle and traffic rules on-going

• EU Motor Insurance directive for quick victim compensation

• Product liability directive for manufacturer responsibility

• Expert group on liability and new technologies

European Commission Directorate-General

for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs

Automotive and Mobility Industries Unit

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