In addition, the automated vehicle’s trajectory planning will be specifically optimized to cater to the vehicle occupants’ feeling of safety and comfort. To reach the project goals, a user-centered development process is being used that comprises three iterations in which the demonstrator maturity, user group, and evaluation environment (test bench, test track, real traffic) differ. This ensures that the changed user requirements with respect to ergonomics, sense of space, ambience, ride comfort, occupant comfort, wellbeing, controllability, and confidence in the system are optimally modeled in the prototypes.

The influencing factors and cause-effect relationships are mapped for the passenger car and commercial vehicle segments together in a joint requirements and solution space for interiors that takes all disciplines into consideration. This makes it possible to apply the concepts to both of these vehicle segments. The aim of the project is to gain a comprehensive understanding of user requirements for fully automated driving, to develop solution concepts, and to have prototypes evaluated by end users. On the basis of these activities, it will then be possible to provide recommended courses of action for successfully driving forward the development of fully automated driving.