Elektrobit (EB) partners with Udacity

SAN JOSE, CA June 9, 2017 – Elektrobit (EB), a leading developer of cutting-edge, embedded and connected technology solutions for the automotive industry, today announced a partnership with Udacity to develop content on automotive functional safety for the online education company’s Self-Driving Car Nanodegree program. This is an expansion of EB’s current relationship as Udacity‘s hiring partner, which affords the company preferential opportunities to hire graduates of the self-driving car program.

Functional safety is considered crucial to the success of self-driving vehicles, and is therefore of vital importance to engineers seeking a role in the growing autonomous ecosystem. Over the course of six lessons, students will gain an understanding of key functional safety principles and approaches for automotive software and hardware.

Topics covered include:

• Introduction to safety, systems engineering, and the ISO 26262 standard
• Engineering considerations with respect to functional safety
• Hazard and risk analysis approaches
• Role of safety in software development and systems design
• Relevance of functional safety in current systems, and why it will be even more important in future self-driving cars

“Autonomous vehicles represent one the greatest opportunities for innovative engineers to challenge themselves and contribute to a rapidly changing industry. EB is proud to contribute its deep expertise in automotive functional safety software to Udacity’s Self-Driving Car Nanodegree program, which is truly one of a kind,” said Martin Schleicher, executive vice president, strategy and key partnerships, EB.

EB helped define the curriculum around functional safety, providing Udacity with its decades of expertise in embedded and connected software solutions and services critical to the development of self-driving vehicles. These include solutions for sensor fusion, functional safety and autonomous driving technologies.

“EB’s solutions in functional safety represent the state-of-the-art in automotive software for automated vehicles. Our new partnership will give students in our self-driving car program an even greater understanding of working with the latest development technologies to further accelerate the development of self-driving cars.” said David Silver, Head of Udacity’s Self Driving Car Nanodegree program.