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# Switzerland Automated Driving Ordinance (VAF, SR 2025/50)

Canonical ID: `3818ac1e-b033-419d-aab0-44050dd05665`

- **Jurisdiction:** [Switzerland](/locations/switzerland.md) (id: `3aacc9dc-e1da-4677-babf-92021223d16f`)
- **Kind:** `other`
- **Status (derived):** in_effect
- **Effective:** 2025-03-01

Switzerland's Ordinance on Automated Driving (Verordnung ueber das automatisierte Fahren, VAF, SR 2025/50), adopted 13 December 2024 and in force from 1 March 2025. It permits motorway autopilot, driverless vehicles on cantonally authorised routes (with a remote operator located in Switzerland), and automated parking - the road-AV framework Swiss-deployed autonomous-vehicle operators fall under.

## Sources (3)

1. https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/2025/50/en
2. https://www.astra.admin.ch/astra/en/home/topics/intelligent-mobility/automated-driving.html
3. https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/2024-12-19/switzerland-automated-driving-to-be-allowed-starting-in-2025/

## Status history

- **in_effect** · 2025-03-01 · editor:DEPLOY content-agent (Sprint 5c-1 EU/Europe regs)
    - Switzerland Automated Driving Ordinance (VAF, SR 2025/50) in force since 1 March 2025; motorway autopilot + driverless on authorised routes.

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