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In February 2024, Steven Wicks and Alice Andrews at Automotive IQ interviewed Gareth Price, Director Software Delivery at Eatron Technologies to get a further understanding of where the industry currently stands with Functional Safety, which we will be posting as a two-part video podcast. Get your copy of Part 1 of this exclusive video interview. Watch part 2 here.

What influenced the interview?

While ISO 26262 is reaching a certain level of maturity, advancements in electrification, autonomous driving, software-defined vehicles, and AI-based applications are introducing new challenges of ensuring safety with new unparalleled levels of complexity. Furthermore, SOTIF is also coming in thick and fast, and safety experts are on the cusp of decision making for the third edition of ISO 26262. To prepare for the next edition, OEMs and Suppliers are looking for the next wave of guidance to accommodate for changes in the automotive industry right now.

Discussion highlights: 

▪ With Eatron being involved in both HV and LV battery management systems, Gareth explains whether the safety considerations for implementing them are the same

▪ The impact of the gaps in the standards for developing both HV and LV batteries

▪ Gareth’s expert recommendations on how to overcome this negative impact

▪ What needs to be included in the next edition of ISO 26262 and SOTIF

▪ The direction other safety standards, including ISO TS 5083 for automated driving systems, and ISO 8926 for pre-existing software are heading in, and how the industry can prepare for any new requirements being faced.

Functional Safety Week 2024

Gareth will be joining 40+ speakers at the conference, sharing his views on how safety standards are evolving, as well as the FuSa & SOTIF considerations for HV & LV batteries.

In the second part of this video interview with Gareth Price at Eatron Technologies and Automotive IQ, Gareth shares his views and knowledge on what should be included in the next edition of ISO 26262 and SOTIF. Following on from this, Gareth gives his insight into what direction other safety standards are heading in, and how the industry can prepare for any new requirements being faced.

Finally, Gareth gives a teaser into what he'll be bringing and presenting at the Functional Safety Week 2024 conference. 

Missed part 1? Watch here. 

Ahead of the Functional Safety Week Europe 2024 conference, Automotive IQ spoke with a panel of experts from NXP Semiconductors to delve into the latest developments and challenges in functional safety. Franck Galtié, Carmen Klug-Mocanu, Marcus Müller, and Mat Blazy-Winning provided invaluable insights into NXP’s functional safety priorities for 2024, shedding light on the company’s strategies amidst the automotive industry’s shift towards autonomous driving and electrification.

From navigating evolving standards landscapes to streamlining functional safety processes and reinterpreting ISO 26262 for complex software architectures in Software-Defined Vehicles (SDVs), the conversation covered the most pressing FuSa challenges for 2024, outlining their key priorities to learn and discuss at the Automotive Functional Safety Week conference.

As Autonomous Vehicles move from level 2 to level 3-5, and the vehicle becomes mostly AI driven, almost every new project will require SOTIF in some way. Automotive IQ spoke with Antonello De Galizia, System Safety Engineering | SOTIF Expert for Automated Driving at CARIAD, who explained the ISO 21448 considerations for L3+ autonomous vehicles, focusing on:

• What needs to be considered when adding SOTIF to a product
• How SOTIF changes the safety concept of L3+ autonomous vehicles
• The operational design domain for autonomous driving applications, and the differences between L2/L3 and L5
  

Ahead of the Functional Safety Week USA 2024 conference, Abhash Das, Safety Expert at ZF Group, has shared with us a snippet of his upcoming presentation - How to Balance Operational & Functional Safety for Autonomous Vehicles. 

Get a taste of what Abhash will be presenting at the Functional Safety conference. Here are some of the USPs: 

- Combination of Safety and Security expertise in an interconnected and integrated unit

- Safety expertise from the component to a complex system of systems

- Security expertise from Product Security up to IT/OT Security

- Single source for all Safety and Security activities

ISO 26262 3rd Edition, Functional Safety and Semiconductor Company Perspectives: what should be included in ISO 26262 3rd edition to address growing complexities in functional safety, from the semiconductor company perspective? Learn from Franck in this exclusive Automotive IQ article.

Understanding the Standards Landscape

Automotive IQ speaks with Riccardo Vincelli, Director of the Functional Safety Competence Center at Renesas Electronics, who breaks down the standards landscape, helping the industry understand the next evolution of ISO 26262, ISO TS 5083. Riccardo also details the standard development activities for safety and AI, focusing on ISO PAS 8800.

Plus! Riccardo shares his blog post: Functional Safety Standards for Automotive Products.

Learn from Milad Hasanvand, Senior Safety Expert at a leading technology organization on the connection points between functional safety and security processes. Milad explains the need for coordination between standards, and what benefits it brings to the organization and the customer.

Read your copy to see how a valid safety analysis and combined processes can maximize efficiency, as well as discovering what the benefits are from encouraging a strong relationship between safety and security experts.

As well as this report, Milad gives a few spoilers to his presentation on the risks of ASIL-based assurance and why it’s important for functional safety.

Ali Nouri at Volvo cars details the challenges that arise in ensuring safety in AVs, ranging from design to V&V. Ali explains how we can adapt the safety aspects of development to the DevOps ecosystem. 

Ali is the Senior System Engineer, working on the safety argumentation of AD, as well as functional safety and SOTIF. Ali is also Sweden’s representative in ISO/PAS 8800 and ISO/TS 5083 working groups.

Automotive IQ sat down with Riccardo Vincelli, Director of the Functional Safety Competence Centre at Renesas Electronics, to understand how ISO 26262 supports the whole product safety lifecycle of a car – from management, development, production, and service – as well as how to overcome the implementation challenges of ISO26262.

Download the interview and come away with lessons in how:

• To best overcome challenges in extensive documentation and testing while ensuring ISO 26262 compliance is achieved.
• The content of ISO 26262 is evolving and Vincelli’s perspective on how it will impact the future of the automotive industry.
• Suppliers, Tier 1s, and original equipment manufacturers can support each other to fulfil their roles in functional safety.

Download your copy of the exclusive interview >>

Verifying automated systems can be complex and difficult. Trigger events can lead to unwanted behaviours of systems such as weather conditions and misinterpretations of signs, which can lead to accidents.

As the automotive industry increasingly moves towards fully autonomous vehicles (AVs), managing unintended use and hazardous events have become top priorities for automotive companies.

Darren Galpin Principal Digital Verification Engineer, Dialog Semiconductors at Renesas Company, provides insights on how SOTIF and ISO 26262 can address functional insufficiencies and foreseeable misuse through design and verification measures.

Download the interview for an exclusive insight into:

• What can be done from a functional safety standard point of view to help streamline the certification process.
• If SOTIF and ISO 26262 should be separate standards.
• How the automotive industry is ensuring AVs support safety by design.
  

We know that the industry is on a tight deadline to meet the new standards, but how can we understand them further, as well as the safety cases?

Automotive IQ speaks with conference speaker Rami Debouk at General Motors. Rami Debouk joined General Motors Global Research and Development Center in Warren, Michigan, USA in 2000 after receiving his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is currently a GM Technical Fellow with research interests in system safety methods and techniques, system of systems, failure diagnosis, and fault tolerant systems.

Download your copy of this exclusive interview to understand the standards landscape & current safety requirements the industry are facing and how, in particular, General Motors are applying them to production.

Download your copy to see what Phil has to say on: understanding the bigger picture of the standards landscape, the current safety standards that are in place for autonomous vehicles, multiple use of functional safety processes for other standards and approaching safety holistically, if SOTIF is filling the gaps for addressing AV safety, what else is needed to ensure the safety of L3+ autonomous vehicles, whether we can apply ISO 26262 to higher levels of vehicle automation.

Learn from Lisa Clark, Global Director, Functional Safety at Veoneer, who provides guidance on the entire automotive safety lifecycle. Get your copy of this exclusive report on safety standards and see the practices on complying with overlapping standards.

INTEROPERABILITY OF ISO 26262 & ISO/ SAE 21434

The release of ISO/ SAE 21434 in August 2021 has highlighted the commonalities between functional safety & security. But how do we link the requirements to make sure that they are in line with each other, and really make things interconnected? By discussing how safety & security can be combined, we will increase understanding of how security impacts the safety concept, and vice versa.

Download your copy of Interoperability of Functional Safety & Cybersecurity by Shrikanth Sutar, Sr. Technical Lead at Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India.

Shrikanth presented the topic Understanding How Safety & Security Are Working Together at the Berlin conference: Application of ISO 26262, 2022. Shrikanth

In February 2024, Steven Wicks and Alice Andrews at Automotive IQ interviewed Gareth Price, Director Software Delivery at Eatron Technologies to get a further understanding of where the industry currently stands with Functional Safety, which we will be posting as a two-part video podcast. Get your copy of Part 1 of this exclusive video interview. 

What influenced the interview?

While ISO 26262 is reaching a certain level of maturity, advancements in electrification, autonomous driving, software-defined vehicles, and AI-based applications are introducing new challenges of ensuring safety with new unparalleled levels of complexity. Furthermore, SOTIF is also coming in thick and fast, and safety experts are on the cusp of decision making for the third edition of ISO 26262. To prepare for the next edition, OEMs and Suppliers are looking for the next wave of guidance to accommodate for changes in the automotive industry right now.

Discussion highlights: 

▪ With Eatron being involved in both HV and LV battery management systems, Gareth explains whether the safety considerations for implementing them are the same

▪ The impact of the gaps in the standards for developing both HV and LV batteries

▪ Gareth’s expert recommendations on how to overcome this negative impact

▪ What needs to be included in the next edition of ISO 26262 and SOTIF

▪ The direction other safety standards, including ISO TS 5083 for automated driving systems, and ISO 8926 for pre-existing software are heading in, and how the industry can prepare for any new requirements being faced.

Functional Safety Week 2024

Gareth will be joining 40+ speakers at the conference, sharing his views on how safety standards are evolving, as well as the FuSa & SOTIF considerations for HV & LV batteries.