The AUTOSAR consortium has released the new specification, this version includes rules for incorporation of On-Board-Diagnose (OBD) according to the ODBII-standard.

11 documents of version 3.0 where adapted for version 3.1.

This extension is important for Europe and Japan, but especially for the US market. The regulations with respect to OBD are, compared to the rest of the world, extended. Now AUTOSAR is can be used "world wide".

The On-Board-Diagnose is introduced in the 1980s in California. The main goal is monitoring all exhaust parameters during a normal drive cycle. The driver is notified when values exceed certain thresholds. Europa and Japan introduced similar regulations.

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