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The participation of highly automated vehicles in road traffic, and of driverless vehicles later on, is today, at least in some scenarios, already a foreseeable future. While such vehicles currently face traffic situations that are practically exclusively intended for human road users, the conditions will shift increasingly in favor of the automated drive on the motorway at first, and subsequently in urban traffic as well. Unlike purely individual maneuver planning, the potential of automated driving can be incrementally maximized through the interconnection, coordination and cooperation of the computer-controlled vehicles.

Cooperating vehicles can optimally utilize the flow of traffic, fine-tune their maneuvers to increase traffic safety, and simultaneously provide comfortable and energy-efficient driving.

Suitable safety solutions must be put in place to protect against the potential risks associated with the interaction of networked vehicles. Effective mechanisms that protect against misuse and safeguard the privacy of the road users must already be integrated during the hardware and software design process of these new vehicles.

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Although a broad consensus on the benefits of cooperative driving has been reached in research, its actual feasibility is still a long way from market maturity and faces many practical challenges, such as the coordination with human transport users. Investigations that do not only examine the manageable partial tasks of automated driving but also the challenges of a complete, safe and reliable overall system are not yet available. This makes it more difficult to estimate the actual complexities that are necessary to achieve these functions, and above all, to establish their respective, urgently required standards.

The goal of the subproject "Networked Mobility" is the prototypical implementation of a networked cooperative driving system with technology that is oriented on series production: from the provision of reliable communication regarding protection against misuse, to the integration of an actual maneuver planner in demonstration vehicles that can reliably implement cooperative driving in scenarios involving human drivers as well. This work will explore the requirements, opportunities and challenges of cooperative driving, thus creating the necessary conditions to develop binding standards for these technologies that will enable a smooth transition in technology.

Although a broad consensus on the benefits of cooperative driving has been reached in research, its actual feasibility is still a long way from market maturity and faces many practical challenges, such as the coordination with human transport users. Investigations that do not only examine the manageable partial tasks of automated driving but also the challenges of a complete, safe and reliable overall system are not yet available. This makes it more difficult to estimate the actual complexities that are necessary to achieve these functions, and above all, to establish their respective, urgently required standards.

The goal of the subproject "Networked Mobility" is the prototypical implementation of a networked cooperative driving system with technology that is oriented on series production: from the provision of reliable communication regarding protection against misuse, to the integration of an actual maneuver planner in demonstration vehicles that can reliably implement cooperative driving in scenarios involving human drivers as well. This work will explore the requirements, opportunities and challenges of cooperative driving, thus creating the necessary conditions to develop binding standards for these technologies that will enable a smooth transition in technology.