Security and Safety Systems on Modern Vehicles

Abstract

In collaboration with safety, security, infocommunication and transport science, self-driving vehicles are going to transform the future of the transport technology. Due to technological innovations and specificities, new risks and vulnerabilities are emerging in terms of modern road vehicles and more increasingly in terms of autonomous vehicles. These vulnerabilities should be addressed at the design stage already. Autonomous vehicles just as manufacturers of intelligent and networked cyber-physical systems, are supposed to meet the interoperability requirements and consider security threats and safety hazards at the same time.

The autonomy level of the vehicles is increasing therefore, they are becoming more and more similar to a rolling computer, evaluating and using more and more information, retrieving information from their environment with their sensors and from each other or gathering it from track elements. Based on this incoming data intelligent vehicle systems are able to identify potential hazards.

Irrespective of the communication channel, protocol or information gathering solution, the vehicles must be protected from external threats also by allowing access only to authorized users, ensuring the possibility that the traffic information can be processed, retrieved, and examined retroactively in addition to the security risks of information, communication.

The research in this study summarizes the safety solutions from the past and present and the solutions expected in the short and long term.