The constantly growing global population leading to severe space problems in large cities, the aging society with their continuous need for personal mobility, the CO ₂ increase leading to global warming, and the goal of a fatality-free mobility require new vehicle concepts as offered by automated driving systems. The use of many complex sensors, online optimization in virtual environments, new vehicle communication systems, and functions for automated driving lead to new requirements on hardware with predictable real-time behavior but also computing performance combined with well integrated, cost-effective and performant sensors and actuators. Agile methods are necessary to develop the complex, but highly extendable and flexible software algorithms for automated driving systems. Additionally, new validation methods are required to achieve the necessary test results in acceptable time periods.