Designing safe and secure autopilots for the urban environment

This paper analyses safety and security risks posed by the introduction of autopilot functions for road vehicles. Drawing on lessons learned from the aviation industry, the authors make the case for standardising the behaviour and interfaces of advanced driver assistance systems. This paper proposes a modular functional architecture to support both iterative development and an iterative increase in security sophistication. The authors define security goals for their modular architecture based on their analysis of the threat and propose a pragmatic approach to achieve these security goals.