This application relates to the vehicle field, and in particular, to the autonomous driving field, and specifically discloses a driving control instruction generation method, which is applied to an automated driving system. The automated driving system includes one or more service node sets, each service node set includes one or more service function sets, each service function set includes one or more basic algorithm sets, and the method includes: determining a target service node; invoking, from the one or more service function sets based on a current driving scenario, a target service function corresponding to the target service node; and invoking basic algorithms corresponding to the target service function. Based on a software framework of a hierarchical model of a service node, a service function, and a basic algorithm unit provided in this application, in an entire process of constructing the software framework, main work of a service developer is enabled to focus on thinking logic of a service, and development workload and development complexity are reduced.