  The automotive industry is experiencing a transition from assisted to highly
automated driving. New concepts for validation of Automated Driving System
(ADS) include amongst other a shift from a "technology based" approach to a
"scenario based" assessment. The safety validation and type approval process of
ADS are seen as the biggest challenges for the automotive industry today.
Having in mind a variety of existing white papers, standardization activities
and regulatory approaches, manufactures still struggle with selecting the best
practices that keep aligned with their Safety Management System and Safety
Culture. A step forward would be to implement a harmonized global safety
assurance scheme that is compliant with relevant regulations, laws, standards,
and reflects local rules. Today many communities (regulatory bodies, local
authorities, industrial stake-holders) work on proof-of-concept framework for
the Safety Argumentation as an answer to this problem. Unfortunately, there is
still no consensus on one definitive methodology and a set of safety metrics to
measure ADS safety. An objective of this summary report is to facilitate a
comprehensive review and analysis of the literature concerning available
methods and approaches for vehicle safety, engineering frameworks, processes of
scenario-based evaluation and a vendor- and technology-neutral Safety
Argumentation approaches and tools.
