• Overview about existing scenario databases in Europe incl. their representativeness, content, formats, data usage requirements, etc. (GIDAS, TASC, IGLAD, SafetyPool, Streetwise, …)
• Insights into SYNERGIES project (Horizon Europe project 06/2024 – 05/2027)
• Application example: Derivation of concrete scenarios for test & development
• Use case example: LTAP system in actual accident and scenario databases

Consumer Protection Requirements

• Background of virtual testing in Euro NCAP
• Practical experiences
  • Simulations and correlation with physical testing
  • On-road evaluation
• Foreseeable virtual testing process

• Premise and background of HMI assessment for vehicle safety
• Protocol structure overview and current status
• Next steps before introduction

• Current requirements
  • Sources and basic testing requirements from certifications for road approval, ratings and standards
• Progress of active safety development
  • Overview of past and future achievements based on expert survey regarding milestones for the development of automated driving
• Efficiency requirements & scalability
  • Trend of shorter development cycles, changes in the automotive market and technical requirement for statistical power result in needs for automation and digitalization
• Adverse environmental conditions
  • Crucial step in extending the ODD is testing under adverse conditions, mainly rain, glaring sunlight, crooked road edges, temporary lane boundary objects and damaged road markings

Live Driving Demonstrations in the Action Area

Legal Requirements

• ADAS testing: current challenges in testing due to current and future regulations
• Efficient and flexible implementation on the proving ground, including technical basics

Consumer Protection Requirements - Part 2

Verification and Validation

• Investigation of the potential of reversible active bonnet systems
• Results from impact tests with the biofidelic dummy
• Results of component tests
• Considerations for ADAS Assessment

• Increasing complexity in consumer protection
• Optimization of test track operation through the use of 5G
• Application limits of today's test tools
• Standardization in everyday testing
• Methodical approach to scenario definition based on a defined ODD

• How does sensor simulation work?
• Why is the measurement of materials on tracks crucial?
• What are the benefits of continuous validation for sensor simulation?

• Motivation: Validation width, cross-border protection (traffic signs, road markings)
• The challenge of validating FAS systems
• Virtualization of real vehicle tests for DAS functions
• Test tool modelling
• Vehicle simulation on the conventional chassis dynamometer using real-time simulation: radar, camera, lidar
• Outlook for future-oriented validation “Road to Rig” and “Physical to Virtual”

• Methods for analyzing driver distraction, aiming to define, evaluate, measure, and test this phenomenon
• Defining attention, its limitations, and how these can lead to driver distraction, categorized specifically for the driving context
• Methods used to evaluate and measure distraction
• Special attention to visual-cognitive distraction and hybrid measures, particularly those combining vehicular and behavioural data
• Comparison of driving simulators and real-world driving tests, emphasizing their similarities and differences

Robustness

• Current development activities with respect to robustness
• NCAP rating strategy vs. real world robustness
• Robustness of motorcycle safety
• Chances of Virtual Testing
• Challenges of robust system development and robustness rating