Back in Berlin: at #TÜVMobiCon, hosted by TÜV-Verband, we had the pleasure of welcoming Dr. Claudia Elif Stutz, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Transport, Dr. Dirk Stenkamp, Chairman of the Board of Management of TÜV NORD GROUP, and Ute Bonde, Berlin's Senator for Mobility, Transport, Climate Protection and the Environment, aboard our research vehicle EDGAR.

Together with TÜV-Verband, we participated in testing a new assessment methodology for Level 4 autonomous driving under real-world traffic conditions. EDGAR completed multiple test drives; the recorded data serves as a basis for building an assessment process for admitting automated vehicles to public roads.

The route: 5.4 kilometres through Berlin-Mitte, from Invalidenstraße to Holzmarktstraße – fully autonomous and without a single human intervention. That's in one of the hardest places to drive, including multi-lane junctions, cyclists, tram tracks, construction detours and dense city traffic. After two years of developing and testing in Munich, Berlin was the test of how well the software generalizes beyond familiar ground. A full, uncut video of the ride is available in the linked LinkedIn post.

EDGAR runs the open-source Autoware Foundation software stack, further developed by the Institute of Automotive Technology, the TUM Autonomous Vehicle Systems Lab and the Cyber-Physical Systems Group at TUM.

Thank you to TÜV-Verband for the great collaboration and to our guests from the Federal Ministry of Transport for coming along for the ride.