  The development of fully automated vehicles imposes new challenges in the
development process and during the operation of such vehicles. As traditional
design methods are not sufficient to account for the huge variety of scenarios
which will be encountered by (fully) automated vehicles, approaches for
designing safe systems must be extended in order to allow for an ISO~26262
compliant development process. During operation of vehicles implementing SAE
Levels 3+ safe behavior must always be guaranteed, as the human driver is not
or not immediately available as a fall-back. Thus, the vehicle must be aware of
its current performance and remaining abilities at all times. In this paper we
combine insights from two research projects for showing how a skill- and
ability-based approach can provide a basis for the development phase and
operation of self-aware automated road vehicles.
