Industry news · 2020.11.11
WEF launches the SafeDI “virtual driver’s licence” approach
Roadmap to ‘Virtual Driver’s licence’ for Autonomous Vehicles Can Accelerate Development While Making Roads Safer
Overview
WEF’s November 2020 launch announcement explains the SafeDI proposal for graduated scenario-based operational assessments and its Prepare–Define–Measure–Execute workflow. It records stakeholder support and the intention to pilot the framework, providing launch context alongside the separate technical reports.
Publication and version information
Historical launch announcement; the described pilot was a stated future intention.
Author-supplied source information
Author-supplied information on arXiv.
Corporate WEF publisher; Swiss publisher-origin evidence is the primary WEF report footer, while the news dateline is NewYork. No individual author byline. No result or current approval inferred from the “virtual licence” phrase.