Functional safety will protect passengers in autonomous cars

In autonomous vehicles, functional safety will ensure that the car brakes when there’s a cat in the middle of the road, but not when there’s a piece of trash blowing across it, Mariani said. It makes certain that the car doesn’t speed up instead of slow down in a traffic jam, or suddenly go into parking mode when driving on the highway.

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