• System modeling
• Hazard identification
• Safety analysis
• Metrics and benchmarks for risk and safety
• Safety concepts
• Safety-by-Design approaches
• Safety communications & implications for public acceptance
• Safety implications for system architectures
• Handling of challenging/critical scenarios
• Safety of environment perception in open environments
• Ensuring safety under uncertainty
• Self-perception, self-awareness, introspection and related approaches of other communities
• Value-based development and decision making
• Determination of environment perception performance
• Safety implications for simulator architecture/design
• Safety of the intended functionality (SOTIF)
• Release for operation in public traffic
• Safety argumentation for machine learning based systems
• Interplay of safety and security in automated vehicles
• Standardization
• Taxonomy and terminology
• Safety and security engineering guidelines for automated vehicles
• Collaboration initiatives to promote introduction of sufficiently safe automated vehicles
• Safety implications for data logging architecture/design
• Type approval/homologation for automated vehicles.