Proposed actions should move the development of common verification and validation methodologies to a new level by widening substantially the scope of use cases addressed and by preparing the required tools to enable the comprehensive safety verification and validation of CCAM systems. This should take into account mixed traffic situations and include functional safety issues and cybersecurity.
Scenario-based approaches combining virtual and physical testing are needed, as conventional verification and validation approaches would require hundreds of millions of test kilometres for higher levels of CCAM.

Proposed actions are expected to develop a commonly accepted and harmonised simulation environment with standardised, open interfaces and quality controlled data exchange to enable the virtual testing of CCAM functions and systems in a multitude of relevant test cases and to enable the efficient and seamless use of validated models from different sources.

Proposals need to define and develop processes and tools to continuously identify relevant events and convert them into detailed scenarios from various sources (including accidents), complemented by an ontology-based tool to define relevant future/theoretical scenarios. Additionally, proposed actions are expected to develop recommendations for harmonisation, standardisation and homologation including the conceptual description of an approval scheme for CCAM systems considering all types of vehicles and fed into on-going discussions regarding EU type vehicle approval rules as well as in the framework of the UNECE.