Managing of quality and safety continuously through development into production

As the opening titles to the Stuttgart International Symposium “Automotive and engine technology” show: “Safe, efficient, connected – On the way to future mobility” Prof. Herbert Kohler, Daimler AG and “Mobility solutions for future scenarios” Wolf- Henning Scheider, Robert Bosch GmbH [1]; key automotive companies are addressing the opportunities provided by modern electronics and connectivity solutions. The discussion about legal understandings concerning is currently heading to a precise set of definitions for systems providing intelligent functions to the classic driving task, compare [2]. It still counts that “the arrival of new intelligent functions, allowed by the availability of powerful and low-cost electronics, is bringing a complete new line of market potentials for the automobile manufacturers and their suppliers [3].