Highly or even Fully- Automated Driving will have a deep impact on human´s social life, changing the way we perceive driving by its actual meaning and how the vehicle passengers will act during travelling between the desired destinations.

Future highly- automated vehicles will have to be updated periodically to keep up with the enormous development speed of the entire Automated Driving ecosystem. This leads – already today – to a high risk of possible cyber security attacks over all kinds of internal and external electrical interfaces. By such attacks, information could be stolen or even the control of vehicles could be taken over. Such intention must be mitigated at all stages of the vehicle lifecycle including development, maintenance and disposal.

This White Paper discusses the challenges Highly-Automated Driving poses for human safety and demonstrates what kinds of aspects regarding Functional Safety and Cyber Security have to be considered already during development as per today.