Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) are an essential part of autonomous vehicles. The automation of road vehicles and road transport is in a high focus in the last decade and it will be one of the most important development area in the next years. The course gives a general overview of connected and automated driving. It presents examples for automated in-vehicle functions and also the standardized SAE classification. It shows the development steps: simulation, laboratory, proving ground and public road testing and also the homologation, which has not yet been fully standardized.