As a key research platform, the scaled test vehicle (1:10 scale) enables efficient pre-development of the algorithms in the entire solution pipeline from environmental perception and localization to trajectory planning and tracking, as well as the advanced AI algorithms for automated driving through rapid prototyping with necessary hardware and software components. The algorithms deployed in the scaled test vehicle can be tested reproducibly, flexibly, efficiently and safely in a tunable laboratory environment, providing a convincing early assessment of the maturity of the algorithms for their future transfer to the real full test vehicle.