In the field of vehicular automation a scenario denotes a sequence of snapshots of the environment and the actions of a vehicle.
Scenarios are created to represent real-world situations and are used for development, testing, and validation purposes.
[1][2] According to ASAM's OpenODD concept paper, scenarios are related to operational design domain.
Defining the appropriate behavior of actors within an ODD creates a scenario that is not dependent on any ODD definition.
[5] In 2022, Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research announced scenario-based safety validation of self-driving trucks in cooperation with Torc Robotics.