  Large steps are being taken by the industry and R&D organizations in
automated driving technology development, as well as in setting up appropriate
scenario-based safety assessment methods. In this paper a concept framework is
proposed for a very specific group of vehicles: trucks in a platoon enabled by
vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication. The basis is formed by previously
proposed scenario-based assessment methods for individual automated driving
vehicles. These methods however do not consider the inter-vehicle communication
component. It is shown how V2V communication interconnects vehicles in a
system-of-systems, and how to include V2V communication in the scenario
description. The paper also provides a vision to answer the basic question
whether safety assessment should consider the platoon as a whole, or the
individual vehicle in the platoon.
