BEYOND ISO26262

Functional Safety & SOTIF & Cybersecurity – Moving towards autonomous driving

Automated vehicles must be safe. A new standard is on its way – ISO/PAS 21448 – Safety Of The Intended Functionality (SOTIF). SOTIF is an important new concept that has been introduced alongside ISO 26262, to deal with wider aspects of system safety in the particular contexts of driver assist and higher levels of automated driving functions. ISO/PAS 21448 complements ISO 26262.

ISO 26262 also considers the need for functional safety interact with cybersecurity. ISO/SAE 21434 is under development in draft form but as it becomes established practitioners will need to consider areas of overlap and interaction more closely.