Accident analysis based safety function development

The development of modern automotive safety functions is strongly driven by reducing development effort, component costs, tight scheduling and especially the expectation of high functional efficiency. As improving safety is a shared vision of governmental authorities and industry, the industry is called upon to exhibit proven evidences of function efficiency - even before a dedicated function works in the field. The given challenges can be mastered by involving the latest results of accident analysis into the development process. The extensive use of in-depth accident data enables optimized function design with focus on efficiency and related component costs. Hence, an accident analysis based methodology for the development of active safety functions is derived. The power of this method will be demonstrated by the application on an exemplary use case. For the covering abstract see ITRD E140665.