Environmental compatibility and the increasing demand for safety are the main drivers for the automotive development today and in the future. The associated tasks can only be solved by extensive usage of electronics and software. This leads to an increasing complexity in our vehicles. We have to accept this increase and have to find ways to integrate this into our development workflow. Here we have to focus on many areas, among others on 1. improvement of quality, 2. increasing amount of engineering, 3. utilization of worldwide engineering resources. The key to this global approach, which has to cope with highly complex development activities, can be found in standardized structures, architectures, and processes. Standards in general are proven means to avoid superfluous complexity, to enable efficient and reliable processes, and to allow for products with a high degree of reuse and easy integration or further processing. They are necessary to deal with future challenges of environmental friendly and safe automobiles. Hence the standardization of architectures and components is an important element to turn also the visions of zero emissions (cf. section 2) and collision avoidance (cf. section 3) into reality. While other industries have already introduced a high level of standards, the automotive world does not push the adoption of standards to a comparable level until now.
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