This status report summarizes work by expert groups on regulatory fitness for Automated Driving Systems presented to WP.29 at its 198th session. Expert groups screened UN Regulations and GTRs to determine relevance for automated vehicles and drafted amendments. As of June 2026, 92 amendment proposals across 88 Regulations have been submitted. Key closed items include overlap with ADS capabilities, test modes, monitoring passengers, and user roles. Ongoing tasks include crashworthiness regulation for category Y, ADS marker lamps, and EMC refinements. The groups concluded that urban shuttles and delivery robots represent use cases potentially requiring future category consideration based on Contracting Party and stakeholder input.
This draft reference document consolidates input from documents AI-07-06, AI-09-03, AI-09-04, AI-08-07, and AI-09-05 to fulfill the initial deliverable of the IWG on Artificial Intelligence pursuant to WP.29/1190. The document addresses AI uses and benefits in automotive, establishes AI use cases prioritizing regulated automotive safety applications, identifies potential risks across AI lifecycle stages, and presents illustrative risk management practices informed by literature review. Seven whole-system lifecycle risks are identified, including insufficient documentation and traceability, inadequate organizational governance, and process drift. Additional risks span AI and use case specification, model architecture and training, data management, verification and validation, and in-use monitoring. Risk management practices derive from standards including ISO 26262, ISO 21448, ISO 23894, and UN Regulations 155 and 156, complemented by research and policy frameworks.
The IWG on Prioritization was established under WP.29 Vice-Chair leadership with participation of GR Chairs. A preliminary session held 2 June 2026 reviewed a UK document listing priority workstreams and discussed prioritization and efficiency as separate considerations. The IWG agreed on the need for flexibility and discussed digitalization of WP.29 report activity. Future sessions will address common understanding of prioritization, review of current GR activities, possible approaches to define prioritization, and enhancement of efficiency, with participation expanded to include CPs and NGOs.