A Safety-Certified Vehicle OS to Enable Software-Defined Vehicles

Autonomous driving, connected vehicles, e-mobility, shared mobility – all mobility disruptors rely on software but lack a unified software platform is preventing cross-domain software development. In the meantime, the vehicle compute and network architecture are moving to centralized high performance computers, but the software implementation is lagging behind the hardware architecture. We are now introducing Apex.OS, the first mobility software platform that is truly integrated end to end. A primary vehicle operating system, robust and flexible enough to cover major systems throughout the vehicle and the cloud, enables user-focused development, just like iOS and Android SDK do so for embedded devices. This paper describes our approach to an automotive SDK capable of covering all automotive software domains and certified to ISO 26262 ASIL D.