The Need for Safety and Cyber-Security Co-engineering and Standardization for Highly Automated Automotive Vehicles

Abstract

A key long-term trend is towards highly automated vehicles and autonomous driving. This has a huge impact, besides comfort and enabling people not able or allowed to drive, on sustainability of environmental-friendly urban road transport because the number of vehicles and parking space could considerably be reduced if called on command and left behind after use for the next call. This requires a considerable amount of functionality, sensors, actuators and control, situation awareness etc., and the integration into a new type of critical infrastructure based on communication between vehicles and vehicles and infrastructure for regional traffic management. Both, safety and security aspects have to be handled in a coordinated manner, affecting co-engineering, co-certification and standardization.