| Work items for Phase 2 of the activities of the Informal Working Group on Automated Driving Systems |
| Reference Number: ADS-21-73 |
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Document lists work items for phase 2 of the IWG on Automated Driving Systems, organized by categories: ADS requirements covering Dynamic Driving Task (remote assistance, connectivity, MRC, priority vehicles and road safety agents); interactions between ADS and its user(s) (external HMI, feature activation and deactivation, ADS to ADAS transitions, HMI commonality, resuming control by fallback user); other ADS requirements (software parameter adaptation, DSSAD, non-DDT related tasks); manufacturer requirements (ISMR, safety case, ODD description, leading metric considerations); items affecting UN Regulation or GTR only (separate technical units, communication document, mutual recognition of SMS); and other items (drafting and text improvements, system updates and thresholds, end-to-end AI ADS, items remaining from FRAV/VMAD integration document). Each item identifies lead parties, priority levels, and status. |
| Meeting Sessions: 21st ADS session (14-17 Jul) |
| Document date: 29 Sep 26 |
| Relevant to: WP.29 Regulatory Project | Automated Driving Systems, GTR No. 26 | Automated Driving Systems, and UN Regulation No. 185 | Approval of vehicles with regard to their Automated Driving Systems |
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| ADS guidance and interpretation document: Proposal to clarify failures to achieve MRC |
| Reference Number: ADS-21-19/Rev.3 |
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Proposal to add a new example and update text based on discussions by the OPI group aimed at finalizing the GID. The revised text adds that the ADS does not transit to a safe state in accordance with the manufacturers defined response as documented in the safety case, and removes provisions regarding the chosen stop location. The group agreed to further work in the next phase on situations where the chosen stop location could have contributed to a collision involving the ADS vehicle before it has moved from that location. |
| Meeting Sessions: 21st ADS session (14-17 Jul) |
| Document date: 17 Jul 26 |
| Relevant to: WP.29 Regulatory Project | Automated Driving Systems, GTR No. 26 | Automated Driving Systems, and UN Regulation No. 185 | Approval of vehicles with regard to their Automated Driving Systems |
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| ADS guidance and interpretation document: SMS-Safety promotion para 8.1.8.1.(c) |
| Reference Number: ADS-21-66/Rev.1 |
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Proposal to revise the guidance text in para. 8.1.8.1.(c) by deleting “This element ensures the existence of effective communication channels, both internally and externally, to support awareness and information sharing.” and inserting “This point focuses on the existence of communication channels, both internal and external, to support awareness and information sharing.” The proposal follows comments received in the 18th ADS Workshop where discussion of the SMS section in a dedicated small drafting group was requested, and the current text aims at streamlining the text. |
| Meeting Sessions: 21st ADS session (14-17 Jul) |
| Document date: 16 Jul 26 |
| Relevant to: WP.29 Regulatory Project | Automated Driving Systems, GTR No. 26 | Automated Driving Systems, and UN Regulation No. 185 | Approval of vehicles with regard to their Automated Driving Systems |
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| ADS guidance and interpretation document: Competent and careful driver |
| Reference Number: ADS-21-68/Rev.1 |
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Based on ADS-21-68/Rev.1, amend para. 3.2.3.(b) to clarify that the regulation requires the safety level of ADS to be at least to the level of a competent and careful human driver as a general concept and technology-neutral comparator, that manufacturers should explain how they determine and apply this concept accounting for national specificities including those that might arise in relevant cases, that different approaches or combinations of approaches may be used varying depending on the safety concept, claims and argument structure, and approach to safety assessment, that no single approach is presumed better, that manufacturers may use more than one approach, that driver population reference data sets should be subject to appropriate selection, processing and interpretation, and to provide non-exhaustive examples of reference driver based approaches and behaviour-based approaches. |
| Meeting Sessions: 21st ADS session (14-17 Jul) |
| Document date: 16 Jul 26 |
| Relevant to: WP.29 Regulatory Project | Automated Driving Systems, GTR No. 26 | Automated Driving Systems, and UN Regulation No. 185 | Approval of vehicles with regard to their Automated Driving Systems |
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| ADS guidance and interpretation document: SMS safety promotion para. 8.1.6.1.(b) |
| Reference Number: ADS-21-65/Rev.1 |
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Proposal to delete the requirement that competence is expected to be actively developed and maintained through structured training and insert that this point focuses on the existence and maintenance of SMS training plans to support competence for the SMS management in para. 8.1.6.1.(b). |
| Meeting Sessions: 21st ADS session (14-17 Jul) |
| Document date: 16 Jul 26 |
| Relevant to: WP.29 Regulatory Project | Automated Driving Systems, GTR No. 26 | Automated Driving Systems, and UN Regulation No. 185 | Approval of vehicles with regard to their Automated Driving Systems |
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