Sensors, cameras and artificial intelligence steer autonomous vehicles rather than a driver behind the wheel and if it’s up to the city of Berlin’s top transportation official, driverless vehicles will be on the streets of the traffic-clogged capital as soon as possible.<\/p>\n
Germany’s T\u00dcV safety board, which has now completed its first test drives with a self-driving minibus, has concluded that a fully autonomous vehicle can handle city traffic safely and reliably, though malfunctions cannot be ruled out.<\/p>\n
Such autonomous vehicles, which operate without a driver, should be deployed in Berlin as soon as possible, said Transport Senator Ute Bonde, who spoke of a “game-changer.” “And I believe we are not talking about a long-term perspective here, but a short-term one.”<\/p>\n
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However, there isn’t really a concrete timetable. So far, autonomous driving in Germany has mainly been tested in pilot projects. Experts in Germany consider the approval procedures and technical requirements to be complex.<\/p>\n
No fully autonomous vehicles in Germany – yet<\/p>\n
There are no Level 4 autonomous vehicles approved for public road traffic in Germany. Legally, however, it is possible. Level 4 refers to vehicles that can drive autonomously in defined areas under specific conditions, for example without any intervention from a driver at the wheel.<\/p>\n
By way of comparison: the situation is different with Level 2 which is assisted driving. This has long been a reality in Germany in cars equipped with features such as overtaking and lane-line assistants and other driver aids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sensors, cameras and artificial intelligence steer autonomous vehicles rather than a driver behind the wheel and if it’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[99],"tags":[44627,53975,53976,112,53978,53977,190,53979],"class_list":["post-106124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-autonomous-driving","tag-autonomous-research","tag-autonomous-vehicles","tag-berlin","tag-city-traffic","tag-driverless-vehicles","tag-germany","tag-technical-university-of-munich"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116734875785176287","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}