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L3Pilot Final Project Results published

The final results of the L3Pilot project have been published on our website. They provide an overview of the activities and results of L3Pilot as well…

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Final Video of L3Pilot available

The final video of the L3Pilot project is now available.

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Presentations of Final Event available

Download all presentations from the L3Pilot Final Conference.

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L3Pilot project successfully finalised with Final Event

L3Pilot celebrated a week of Final Event in conjunction with ITS World Congress 2021 in Hamburg.

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Stellantis L3Pilot video series

L3Pilot partner Stellantis on YouTube!

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From the Final Event Week: Visit of the Minister

#ITSWC2021: German Federal Minister of Transport and Digital Infrastructure visits L3Pilot Booth

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From the Final Event Week: The City ride

#ITSWC2021: Automated Driving through the City of Hamburg

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From the Final Event Week: On Motorways

#ITSWC2021: Tour on B75 or A255/A1 starting at Elbinsel Veddel

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From the Final Event Week: The Final Conference

#ITSWC2021: Hall B6, room 1 on October 13 + 14

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Joint European effort boosts automated driving

L3Pilot, Europe’s first comprehensive pilot test of automated driving on public roads demonstrates automated systems for cars in Hamburg, Germany, in…

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L3Pilot work wins Outstanding Student Paper Award

Linda Pipkorn, a PhD student at Chalmers University of Technology, was awarded the Outstanding Student Paper Award in the Honda Student Session…

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L3Pilot supports 2021 AutomotiveUI

L3Pilot is proud to support this year’s International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI).…

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L3Pilot Final Event: Registration is open

Register now here for the L3Pilot Final Event taking place on October 13 and 14, 2021 in conjunction with ITS World Congress in Hamburg, Germany.

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SAVE THE DATE: L3Pilot Final Event

L3Pilot will hold the Final Event on Wednesday, October 13 and Thursday, October 14, 2021 in conjunction with the ITS World Congress in Hamburg,…

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More information on datasets available on www.L3Pilot.eu/data

In October 2020 the Volkswagen Group Innovation in cooperation with the L3Pilot project released the large-scale roundabout drone dataset (see news

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L3Pilot @ Virtual EUCAD 2021

L3Pilot successfully participated in this year’s EUCAD “Yes, we CCAM!”. The third European Conference on Connected and Automated Driving was held…

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On the importance of shared knowledge

Aria Etemad, Volkswagen AG, L3Pilot Co-ordinator comments in the VIP blog the Knowledge Base on Connected and Automated Driving (CAD) initiated by the…

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Look out for L3Pilot during upcoming EUCAD 2021

Less than a month to go! The third European Conference on Connected and Automated Driving will be held virtually from 20 to 22 April 2021.

Aria…

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Europe-wide large-scale piloting of Automated Driving Functions successfully accomplished

After two years of massive efforts, by the end of February 2021, the partners of the L3Pilot project concluded the piloting of Automated Driving…

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How to conduct a pilot trial during a pandemic: L3Pilot partners continue testing despite COVID-19 crisis

The user is at the centre of all L3Pilot studies, trials, and research. And so they are during the COVID-19 pandemic – in a special and unanticipated…

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L3Pilot @ ARCADE Workshop on Data Sharing

How do you achieve shared data when 14 vehicle owners are collecting data in a large-scale pilot trial? How do these data become suitable for…

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L3Pilot educating Automated Driving

Wintertime is study time: Fill the hours looking closer at our L3Pilot Summer School videos from September last year. On the dense agenda you find the…

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L3Pilot @ Virtual ITS European Congress

L3Pilot presented to the virtual edition of the ITS European Congress on November 9, 2021, on major milestones from the project during the session PS1…

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openDD: Large-scale roundabout drone dataset released by L3Pilot

The Volkswagen Group Innovation released in cooperation with the L3Pilot project the openDD dataset. It is now available on the L3Pilot website https:…

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First L3Pilot paper published

The first L3Pilot paper out of a series of papers on the acceptance of conditionally automated cars is finally published at the Transportation…

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More than 120 persons test the future of driving in Hamburg

As part of the Europe-wide L3Pilot tests of Level 3 functions on public roads across Europe, more than 120 test persons drove through the center of…

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L3Pilot Code of Practice Workshop to be held in Paris on 21 October 2020

The L3Pilot Code of Practice (CoP) Workshop is planned to take place in Paris, France on 21 October 2020.

Aim of the workshop is to get feedback from…

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L3Pilot @ TRA2020 virtual event

While the physical TRA2020 conference has been cancelled some of the sessions were now held virtually.

On 23 June 2020, Aria Etemad, Volkswagen and…

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L3Pilot partners agree on common data format – and publish it open access

L3Pilot partners, among them 13 OEMs, succeeded in developing a common data format (CDF). As a format harmonized between tens of organizations…

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TRA2020 conference in Helsinki, Finland has been cancelled

The Transport Research Arena (TRA) in Helsinki, Finland on 27-30 April 2020 has been cancelled: traconference.eu (→ external link).

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L3Pilot @ The Future of Transportation World Conference in Vienna, Austria

On 11 December 2019, Olivier Lenz, FIA, presented preliminary results on user acceptance evaluation emerging out of the L3Pilot online survey at The…

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L3Pilot coordinator Aria Etemad, Volkswagen will be speaker at the interACT Final Event

On the occasion of the interACT Final Event which will take place near Munich, Germany, on 1 April 2020, Aria Etemad, Volkswagen, was invited to…

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2030 – L3Pilot Future Scenarios for Automated Driving

How could the deployment of Automated Driving possibly look like in the year 2030? What if societal acceptance of AD increases but the technology…

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Second L3Pilot General Assembly held in Athens

78 experts on Automated Driving from research and industry covering a broad range of fields of interest gathered in Athens, Greece, on November 27 and…

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L3Pilot @ TRA2020

L3Pilot partners will present the project during the Transport Research Arena (TRA) in Helsinki, Finland on 27-30 April 2020.

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L3Pilot @ ITS World Congress in Singapore - Review

L3Pilot partners successfully presented the L3Pilot project during the 2019 ITS World Congress in Singapore.

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L3Pilot fleet @ SAFER, Lindholmen Science Park in Gothenburg, Sweden

For two days, L3Pilot vehicle owners gathered at SAFER in Gothenburg to outline the progress and analyze the outcome of the pilot test so far…

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L3Pilot @ 2019 Digital Transport Days

Hristiyan Stoyanov, EICT, introduced L3Pilot and how it paves the way towards implementation of automated driving on European roads at Digital…

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Update: L3Pilot @ ITS World Congress Singapore

L3Pilot will present intermediate project results at the ITS World Congress in Singapore. L3Pilot partners will be part of SIS 23: Testing of…

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L3Pilot @ Digital Transport Days Helsinki

L3Pilot partners were invited to represent the project during the Digital Transport Days in Helsinki, 7-9 October 2019.

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EU EIP Workshop on highly automated driving in Torino

L3Pilot liaison partner EU EIP invites to a multi-stakeholder workshop which will take place in Torino, Italy 1-2 October 2019.

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L3Pilot partners Volkswagen and DLR will analyse traffic flow at a roundabout in Wolfsburg, Germany using drones

Initiated out of the L3Pilot project, L3Pilot partners Volkswagen and DLR will analyse the traffic flow at a roundabout in Wolfsburg, Germany with…

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L3Pilot @ 3rd European conference on results from road transport research in H2020 projects

L3Pilot partners will present the project at the 3rd European conference on results from road transport research in H2020 projects. The conference…

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L3Pilot successfully hosted session @ ITS European Congress 2019

L3Pilot partners held a special interest session on the topic “Towards an integrative approach for safe and secure automated driving” during the ITS…

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L3Pilot Experimental Procedure available for download

Following the Deliverable D3.1 `From research questions to logging requirements´, Deliverable D3.2 `Experimental Procedure´ continues the L3Pilot…

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First L3Pilot Technical Review successfully completed

On 22 May 2019, the first L3Pilot Technical Review took place at the Volkswagen premises in Wolfsburg, Germany.

Regarding the period-aim “Pilot…

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L3Pilot @ Autonomous Vehicle Testing Symposium in Stuttgart, Germany

During the Autonomous Vehicle Testing Symposium in Stuttgart in May 2019, L3Pilot partner FEV presented on data analytics and the work performed in…

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Find us at ITS World Congress in Singapore

The Special Interest Session “Large-scale testing of Automated Driving on public roads: challenges and first lessons learned” organized by L3Pilot…

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Find us at ITS European Congress 2019

On June 6, 2019, 9:00 - 10:00 you will find L3Pilot partners as organizers of and presenters in SIS 45 “Towards an integrative approach for safe and…

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CORDIS Results Pack on L3Pilot published

The L3Pilot project and its predecessor AdaptIVe, both funded by European Unions’ research and innovation programmes, are now featured in a results…

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L3Pilot in the focus of 2nd EUCAD conference

The largest European project L3Pilot on automated and connected driving was attracting great interest at the EUCAD conference in Brussels, Belgium, on…

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L3Pilot research project starts testing in public

In early March 2019, major European automotive manufacturers started testing automated in-vehicle functions on public roads across ten countries in…

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Press information: Start of L3Pilot test phase

In conjunction with the start of the L3Pilot testing on public roads a press release is available.

Find here the related press release.

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L3Pilot Partner support cooperation of SAE and DIN

L3Pilot partners reviewed a new standard relevant for automated driving. Supported by L3Pilot partners, experts from the SAE international and the…

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L3Pilot presented to European Road Officers and Authorities in Tallinn

L3Pilot Coordinator Aria Etemad, Volkswagen Group Research, was invited by the Conference of European Directors of Roads (CEDR) to give a presentation…

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Find us @EUCAD Conference 2019

L3Pilot will join the second European Conference on connected and automated driving (EUCAD) taking place in Brussels, Belgium, on 2-3 April, 2019.

Du…

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L3Pilot partner @ersa Congress 2019

L3Pilot partner Groupe Renault will represent the project during the 59th ersa Congress in Lyon, France. Among others, Yves Page, Project Leader…

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Exploitation Expert Meetings @EICT in Berlin in February, 2019

To discuss about the driving forces of future business in the field of automated driving, the L3Pilot exploitation work group develops theoretical…

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L3Pilot presented to the UK Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders

Natalia Neila and David Willey from Jaguar Land Rover presented L3Pilot to the UK SMMT (Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders) CAV forum last…

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L3Pilot research questions and hypotheses available for download

L3Pilot Deliverable D3.1 ‘From Research Questions to Logging Requirements’ reports a list of research questions with associated hypotheses,…

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L3Pilot presented during the SIP-adus Workshop in Tokyo, Japan on 13 November, 2018

As part of the Regional Activities and FOTs Session, Aria Etemad, L3Pilot Coordinator, gave an overview of the L3Pilot Project with his presentation…

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Joint workshop of EU EIP project and L3Pilot in Athens, Greece on Thursday, 25 October, 2018

In conjunction with the first General Assembly of the L3Pilot project, a joint workshop together with EU EIP project was held in Athens, Greece.

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ITS World Congress 2018: Project L3Pilot as part of SIS45 attracted great interest

The Special Interest Session “Challenges on Testing and Validation of Automated Driving” (SIS45) attracted great interest. About 240 participants…

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First L3Pilot webinar successfully held on 6 September, 2018

About 70 participants joined the L3Pilot webinar which was part of the connected automating driving (CAD) webinar series.

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Visit L3Pilot during #ITSWC2018

Find us here during the 25th ITS World Congress in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 17 to 21 September, 2018:

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L3Pilot @ heise online news

Adrian Zlocki, representing L3Pilot partner ika, was interviewed by heise online at the Automated Vehicles Symposium 2018 in San Francisco, USA in…

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L3Pilot holds webinar on piloting methodology

On Sep 6, 2018, 13.00 -14.00 L3Pilot will hold a webinar as part of the CAD webinar series. Registration is now open and free of charge.

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L3Pilot hosts a Special Interest Session @ ITS World Congress 2018

During the ITS World Congress in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 17 to 21 September 2018, L3Pilot partners will present their research in Special Interest…

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L3Pilot @ Automated Vehicles Symposium 2018

L3Pilot participated in the Automated Vehicle Symposium 2018 in San Francisco, USA to debate the future of automated vehicles and to collaborate with…

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L3Pilot @ ENABLE-S3 Exhibition

Project Coordinator Aria Etemad, Volkswagen Group Research, represented L3Pilot as keynote speaker at ENABLE-S3 event “Validation and Testing of…

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FESTA workshop held with CARTRE initiative

L3Pilot and partners of the CARTRE initiative held a workshop on the FESTA methodology in Athens on May 17, 2018.

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L3Pilot @ EUCAD 2018 Symposium

The Interactive Symposium on Research & Innovation for Connected and Automated Driving in Europe will take place on April, 19-20, 2018 in conjunction…

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L3Pilot @ TRA 2018

L3Pilot will be represented during the Transportation Research Arena (TRA) held on April 16–18, 2018, in Vienna, Austria.

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Project Coordinator Aria Etemad presented on automated driving to European Parliament

Aria Etemad, Coordinator of the L3Pilot project from Volkswagen Group Research participated in the Driving Future Platform at the European Parliament…

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Dynamic website kicks off

As of today we have a dynamic website up and running. Follow our activities and learn more about L3Pilot and automated driving – and also how to get…

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L3Pilot @ AAAS 2018

Ingrid Skogsmo from the European Commission's Directorate-General Research & Innovation represented the L3Pilot Coordinator Aria Etemad, Volkswagen…

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L3Pilot @ TRB 2018

L3Pilot project Coordinator Aria Etemad, Volkswagen and partner representatives Angelos Amditis, ICCS, and Satu Innamaa, VTT, joined the…

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L3Pilot kicks off @ Volkswagen in Wolfsburg, Germany

The L3Pilot consortium gathered in Wolfsburg, Germany, on September 13, 2017 to launch the four-year project. More than 110 people joined the meeting…

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