As vehicles become increasingly software-defined, functional safety is expanding beyond hardware fault mitigation to address software complexity and emergent system behavior. Ensuring safe operation across the full vehicle lifecycle is now a central challenge for engineers and OEMs.

Building on the themes explored in our technology insight, this follow-up live roundtable brings together three subject-matter experts to examine how functional safety practices must evolve in the SDV era.

The session will address:

• How functional safety is being redefined for software-defined platforms, and how well current standards and practices are keeping up with this transition
• Which obstacles – from validating emergent behaviors to managing update integrity and architectural complexity – are the most critical to address first
• Which emerging tools, methodologies, and standards show the most promise
• How the industry can reconcile the pace of continuous software deployment with the rigour functional safety demands
• How functional safety frameworks have to evolve over the next ten years to keep pace with increasing autonomy and software complexity