EU Type Approval Explained: How Autonomous Vehicles Get Certified for European Roads
Certification, type approval, homologation. Not the sexiest words in autonomous driving, but arguably the most decisive ones for whether AVs ever reach European roads at scale.
The EU's Level 4 regulation (2022/1426) has existed for four years. As of today, not a single vehicle holds EU type approval under it. The common narrative blames slow regulation. My guest tells a different story: the framework is ready, the technical services are ready, and the real bottleneck sits inside the companies themselves.
Dirk Fratzke is Project Leader in the Autonomous Driving & ADAS department at TÜV SÜD…
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