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Trend Monitor - The road towards Autonomous Driving

The Autonomous Driving survey provides challenges, benefits, implementation areas, promising technologies and more about automated driving vehicles. More than 150 senior-level executives and experts from leading OEMs, Tier1s, research institutions and academia gave their opinion on industry trends around Autonomous Driving. Most experts agreed that safety concerns, legal restrictions and liability issues will be the largest building sites on the way to establish automated vehicles as common transportation means.

Key Facts

  • According to almost 80% of the participants, increased safety is the main benefit of autonomous driving.
  • Paradoxical: Safety concerns / fail-safe concepts represent the greatest challenge.
  • Only 18% of the polled professional think that share vehicles can replace individual car ownership.
  • North America is expected to be largest growing market for autonomous driving in the future (53%).

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