The demanding integrity and availability requirements of Highly Automated Driving need to be addressed by suitable architectures.

Algorithms used in automated driving systems are complex and use non-deterministic deep neural networks. Some variants of deep neural networks can be explained theo­retically but their behavior under all conditions for the set of safety-critical scenarios to be covered by the automated driving system in the given operational design domain is generally not readily understood. Here is how it could work – a new approach.

This year's two-day Safetronic conference will once again focus on a wide range of presentations to the holistic safety of road vehicles. Frank Kirschke-Biller, member of the program committee, discusses focal points and highlights for participants in an interview.

Assuming we knew how to properly assess the safety of an autonomous driving application, what would be the consequences? A preview of my presentation at the Safetronic conference (November 15th and 16th 2023).

Holistic safety for road vehicles is the focus of Safetronic conference (15-16 November 2023 in Leinfelden-Echterdingen). In the video interview, Fraunhofer IKS Institute Director Prof. Dr. Mario Trapp and program committee member Hans-Leo Ross from Vay Technologies discuss safety challenges in the automotive sector.

Andreas Knapp is a member of the program committee for Safetronic 2023, the international conference on holistic safety for road vehicles. In this interview, he discusses the content that the participants can expect to enjoy and the things he is particularly looking forward to.

The safetronic® is the industry's premier conference for the holistic safety of road vehicles. In November 2022, experts from the automotive industry met again to discuss challenges, solutions and trends. Although the safety of automated vehicles and, in particular, the associated safety assurance of AI are currently in the public spotlight, the experts at the conference had a different perspective. For them, a well-known topic is experiencing a revival and is emerging as a new trend topic: model-based system safety engineering (MBSE). Having worked on model-based safety engineering for well over a decade now, I'm personally as intrigued by this trend as I am skeptical about whether it's going to take off this time. That's reason enough for me to take a closer look at this potential trend from my individual perspective in this article.

22 abstracts were submitted for this year’s Safetronic conference (November 8–9, 2022), with the Program Committee selecting the best of them. Simon Fürst, Cooperation Management Automated Driving at BMW Group, Munich, and Conference Co-chair, explains the topics Safetronic will focus on as well as the highlights visitors can expect.