ISO 26262 Functional Safety Standard for the Automotive Industry

We have been working with automotive electronics and electrification for enough time to have seen functional safety having a real evolution. If you’ve been in the automotive industry for a while, you know just how complex the interaction between various electronic systems can be. If you are a new engineer starting in this field, you will quickly learn. In this article let’s see what ISO 26262 is, what it aims to achieve, and why there’s more to it than just ticking compliance boxes.