Udo Steininger is the CEO of TESACO GmbH. He still works part-time as Chief Expert Automotive Safety at TÜV SÜD. His area of expertise is the technology and safety of automated driving. He studied physics at the Technical University of Dresden and then worked for 5 years in reactor safety research. Since 1991, he is with TÜV SÜD in Munich in the field of risk, reliability and safety of human-machine systems in the application areas of industry, rail and automotive. He worked with automobile industry, technology companies and service providers on the safe development, testing and operation of automated and connected vehicles. He is involved in corresponding national and European funding projects as well as in various committees and regulatory and standardization bodies. For many years, he was a lecturer on quality and reliability at the Munich University of Applied Sciences and a guest lecturer at the Chair of Automotive Engineering at the Technical University of Munich.
Udo contributes to TESACO his long-term experience in functional safety and safety assurance of automated driving vehicles.