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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8J9B5wlgSw&feature=youtu.be

TL;DR on the vid
Automated driving requires standards that all car manufacturers adhere to. Implemented standards require certification. Certification requires verification by regulators/inspectors, etc.

The long road to develop the standards is likely to make use of virtual environments. Such environments need to account for millions of pieces of information. Rather than each manufacturer build their own for their automated testing (and likely miss lots of edge cases), they could all provide input and share such an environment and advance faster as a result. Test designs, results of each manufacturers' tests, additions to the virtual environment etc, could all benefit from a distributed real time database.

Certification & audits of such certifications might benefit from blockchain

So it's not so much that blockchain is going to be used in your car to enable functions of automated driving, it's that they want to use it in the back office of each car manufacturer (and connect them all together) to share in the development of such standards, and then in the end, a car that has X automated firmware, has traceability & proof that its software is valid & it went through all the XYZ regulated/required testing.