Perception and Planning for Autonomous Vehicles [Guest Editorial]

The four articles in this special section focus on planning and development of autonomous vehicles. These contributions discuss important aspects that mark trends in autonomous driving as well as complete system architectures of successful implementations. Foremost, maps have enabled autonomous driving over long distances and it comes hardly as a surprise that the majority of our papers at least employs map information. Obviously, questions of map accuracy and integrity need satisfactory answers before these may be introduced into safety-critical applications.