Toward Dependability Assurance Framework for Automated Driving Systems

Automated driving systems are advancing towards practical use, and commercial use has already begun in limited environments. Automated driving is a technology that will have a wide-ranging impact on our lives, making it crucial to form consensus on the dependability of automated driving systems among various stakeholders encompassing the general public. Since 2022, we have been conducting joint research and development with an automated driving technology startup, toward developing a framework for assuring the dependability of automated driving systems, using assurance cases. This position paper reports our goals and the current status of our work.