Several federal states in Germany have started a joint test project for autonomous driving.
The federal states Baden-Wuerttemberg, Hamburg, Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia want to push autonomous driving together in the logistics sector. The supra-regional test project wants to bundle the findings of the various test fields and evaluate their results for faster introduction.
The project is under the direction of Lower Saxony. Over two years you want the vehicles, the vehicle functions and the infrastructure test and develop. The aim is to promote safety and standardization. Besides, it’s about them data security and what data the infrastructure receives and sends. In this context, one also dedicates oneself to the legal and social-scientific contexts.
With the coordination of the test fields, the aim is to get the technology on the road as quickly as possible. That should also DLR help. Lower Saxony contributes its test field with 280 kilometers of roads, Baden-Württemberg’s test field has over 250 kilometers including a wide variety of road types, Hamburg advertises its 2,000 test drives and NRW offers its test fields, simulators, country roads and autonomous shipping.