Trends in the Automotive Industry
KASES is a company specialized in Automotive Functional Safety. Safety is one of the key issues of future automobile development. New functionality not only in the area of driver assistance but also in vehicle dynamics control and active and passive safety systems increasingly touches the domain of safety engineering.
The following trends can be observed:
- Increasing functional complexity of vehicles:
- Growing number of functions and functional modes.
- More safety critical functions.
- Integration of safety critical functions and non-safety critical functions.
- Interaction between functions.
- Growing architectural complexity of electronic components:
- more CAN networks and signals exchanged.
- more electronic devices, sensors, ECU’s, software code and software parameters.
- Increasing number of recalls because of electronic problems.
- Decreasing time to market;
- OEM’s increasingly rely on suppliers to access new technology.
These trends and future developments will even increase the need of safe system development processes and the possibility to provide evidence that all reasonable safety objectives have been satisfied.