Despite having been on the agenda for a long time and ambitious announcements from industry heavyweights, the widespread deployment of automated driving (AD) technology has still not happened yet. So, why does the breakthrough of AD always seem to be two years away?
This report aims to, with a special emphasis on purpose-built AVs, analyze and explain technical, commercial, and regulatory challenges around automated driving and provides suggestions on how to overcome those. Since many challenges are interdisciplinary in their nature and advancements in one discipline are often hindered by obstacles in other disciplines, this report is intended to give a broad overview and general understanding of as many AV related aspects as possible and to make interdependencies between different areas visible.
