A recently published article from Electronics Magazine highlights the concern consumers have for the reliability of future connected car functionality.
The connected car initiative received a boost when Google announced the formation of the Open Automotive Alliance (OAA) a group of automotive manufacturers who agreed to pursue ways of making the connected car safer. This should ease consumers minds, but there are still many concerns about safety.
The average lines of code in vehicles today range from 50,000 to 100,000. Invariably, there will be multiple bugs. So the issue really is how to reduce the number of bugs and do any of them affect the operational safety of the vehicle?
One improvement would be to allow much closer collaboration between software and hardware team members. Saving test and QA to the end of the development cycle is no longer the most efficient or preferable method when human lives are dependent on software. Test cases and evaluation of allowable control limits must be performed throughout the design process.
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