Andreas Wohlfarth

Dr Andreas Wohlfarth is head of safety (SOTIF) and cybersecurity in the mobility solutions unit at ZF Friedrichshafen. His tasks span from developing and consulting on Virtual Driver to shuttles and the entire transportation system, with a keen focus on the interplay between safety and security. Before transitioning to ZF’s autonomous driving sector, he worked in electromobility, handling project management and functional safety aspects related to batteries in large-scale projects. His academic foundation lies in physical chemistry, acquired during his studies at the University of Stuttgart. He subsequently earned his doctorate at the Max Planck Institute, specializing in batteries and fuel cells.

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Presentation

Operational safety: ZF Mobility safety case study

In the world of highly automated vehicles, overall safety during operation is a key challenge. Everyone talks about safety as the top priority but whether it is done at ground level is yet to be proved. There is ambiguity in the information exchange between an AV’s behavior with surrounding users, occupants, VRUs and emergency service providers because this is done in bits and pieces. This presentation will address overall safety during the operation of real-world case studies of the actual implementation of unmanned shuttle programs in the Netherlands and Germany.