Many companies in the ADS landscape see the complexity of regulations and standards as a major hurdle to efficiently create value in B2C and B2B contexts. While the ADS systems themselves are becoming more and more intelligent, the safety certification staff’s toolset does not leverage the power of connected information graphs and AI-enabled automation for creation and processing. This talk will introduce the major building blocks required to achieve digital continuous ADS safety certification and will give insights from many years of applied research to explain what the digital ADS safety certification ecosystem of the future could look like. Specifically, the relationship between approval and liability context, risk-based safety cases, the safety engineering work products as well as post-deployment safety monitoring will be analyzed in the context of digitalization needs and potential.

• How digitalization and AI-enabled automation can simplify and accelerate complex safety certification processes in ADS.
• Key components and challenges of creating a digital, continuous safety certification ecosystem.
• Insights from applied research on aligning approval, liability, and safety monitoring in a digitally connected framework.