Podcast: Speed vs. Functional Safety in Automotive Software Development: Are OEMs Solving the Wrong Problem?
Speed vs. Functional Safety in Automotive Software Development: Are OEMs Solving the Wrong Problem?
The Burning Questions for Automotive Software Development Leaders
Software development teams are being told to move fast and stay compliant.
But with the current foundation automotive software is built on, that's a contradiction rather than a strategy.
Software now defines the vehicle. Yet many automotive OEMs still struggle with fragmented architectures, siloed modules, and compliance processes designed for an era when software was optional, not the product itself.
The symptoms are everywhere: software issues at the top of recall reasons, legacy codebases blocking innovation, compliance overhead dragging velocity, and the growing adoption of AI making everything more complex.
You're not stuck between speed and safety. You're stuck with the wrong foundation.
Join our host Annika Packalen, Product Marketing Lead, and Rolf Bittner, Senior Director in Software Quality Solutions, for a frank 30-minute conversation that challenges the assumptions keeping development teams trapped in this false choice.
The hard questions we're tackling:
- Why are legacy practices and legacy systems still a challenge?
- Can compliance become an innovation enabler instead of a bottleneck, and what does that require?
- How do you enforce architectural integrity across a 100-million-line codebase built on fragmented systems?
- What does continuous compliance actually look like when embedded into agile workflows?
- Are we shipping AI-driven systems with safety blind spots we cannot inspect?
This is for technical leaders who've stopped believing the hype:
Software Architects, QA Managers, and Software Development Leaders tired of managing symptoms instead of solving root problems.
If you're ready to reframe software quality from cost center to competitive advantage, this conversation cuts through the noise.
