STUTTGART, Germany — The pursuit of different options within the Autosar automotive software platform and a "mix-and-match" approach by some implementers is leading to software incompatibilities which could undermine the standard's high-level goals, according to experts. The risk is that short-term cost pressure to limit hardware resources may lead OEMs to take short cuts across the standard, bending the rules if not breaking them, and leading to long-term costs in tailoring software to vehicle ranges and models.

That would be ironic because the standard was set up by automotive OEMs and their tier-one suppliers to try control the complexity and diversity in their vehicles' software. Others argue that Autosar is a long-term initiative and that the benefits and compatibilities will increase over time.

Autosar standard not ready to plug-and-play (Full article)

By Christoph Hammerschmidt