VdTÜV and DEKRA welcome the EU Commission’s proposal for a Regulation on type-approval requirements for motor vehicles and their trailers (COM/2018/286 final) dated 17 May 2018. The aim of the reform is to increase road safety and reduce the number of fatalities and severe injuries caused by accidents. The draft Regulation proposes far-reaching improvements in the field of active and passive safety. For example, new vehicles are to be equipped with automated braking and lane-keeping systems. New crash testing requirements are also planned.

Modern vehicles are no longer just hardware, but rather components of a digitally interconnected and integrated mobility ecosystem. The path to highly automated and connected driving goes hand in hand with a significant increase in complex and interdependent systems both inside and outside the vehicle. In future, it will be possible to make remote changes to a vehicle’s functionality from a cloud using radio technology.