Functional safety is evolving to keep pace with the rapidly shifting automotive landscape. Find out how you can stay flexible with the new requirements and challenges from version 3 of ISO 26262.
Back to NewsFunctional safety is evolving to keep pace with the rapidly shifting automotive landscape. In the past few years, we have had to stay flexible to move through new requirements and challenges from automated driving, electric vehicles, software-defined vehicles and now digital twins.
Although the prep work for the third edition of the ISO 26262 standard started this past fall, don’t expect an official release until sometime in 2027.
The industry standard ISO 26262 needs to cover the following topics: updates for artificial intelligence and machine learning: Version 3 of ISO 26262 will align existing requirements and tailor application of Part 6 to ML. In addition, Annex C for configuration of machine learning will be extended and there are guidelines for handling training data.
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