Automated Driving Systems (ADS) hold great potential to increase safety, mobility, and equity. However, without public acceptance, none of these promises can be fulfilled. To engender public trust, many entities in the ADS community participate in standards development organizations (SDOs) with the goal of enhancing safety for the entire industry through a collaborative approach. The breadth and depth of the ADS safety standardization landscape is vast and constantly changing, as often is the case for novel technologies in rapid evolution. The pace of development of the ADS industry makes it hard for the public and interested parties to keep track of ongoing SDO efforts, including the topics touched by each standard and the committees addressing each topic, as well as make sense of the wealth of documentation produced. Therefore, the authors present here a simplified framework for abstracting and organizing the current landscape of ADS safety standards into high-level, long term themes. This framework is then utilized to develop and organize associated research questions that have not yet reached widely adopted industry positions, along with identifying potential gaps where further research and standardization is needed.

翻译：自动驾驶系统（ADS）在提升安全性、出行便捷性和社会公平性方面具有巨大潜力。然而，若缺乏公众认可，这些承诺均无法实现。为建立公众信任，众多ADS领域相关方积极参与标准制定组织（SDO），旨在通过协作方式提升整个行业的安全性。与快速演进的新兴技术常见特征相似，ADS安全标准化格局覆盖范围之广、深度之复杂且处于持续动态变化中。ADS行业的发展速度使得公众及利益相关者难以追踪SDO的持续工作进展（包括每项标准涉及的主题、各主题对应的专业委员会），也无法有效理解海量标准化文件的内涵。为此，本文作者提出一个简化框架，用于将当前ADS安全标准格局抽象归纳为若干高层次、长期性主题。基于该框架，我们进一步梳理并提炼尚未形成广泛行业共识的相关研究问题，同时识别出需要深化研究与标准化的潜在空白领域。