Unsettled Issues Regarding Autonomous Vehicles and Open-source
Software EPR2021009
As automobiles morph from stand-alone mechanical objects to highly connected,
autonomous systems with increasing amounts of electronic components. To manage
these complex systems, some semblance of in-car decision-making is also being
built and networked to a cloud architecture. This cloud can also enable even
deeper capabilities within the broader automotive ecosystem.
Unsettled Issues Regarding Autonomous Vehicles and Open-source
Software introduces the impact of software in advanced automotive
applications, the role of open-source communities in accelerating innovation,
and the important topic of safety and cybersecurity. As electronic functionality
is captured in software and a bigger percentage of that software is open-source
code, some critical challenges arise concerning security and validation.
