Dr Huan Zhao Ternehäll, ADAS solution architect, Geely Technology Europe, delivered a presentation titled ‘ADAS in the SDV era: Opportunities, limits and safety challenges’ on the first morning of the conference.
“The shift toward SDVs promises unprecedented flexibility, scalability and continuous feature evolution across the automotive lifecycle,” said Ternehäll. “However, for ADAS this transition exposes a unique set of technical and safety challenges. While SDV architectures aim to abstract hardware through centralized compute, virtualization and middleware, ADAS perception pipelines remain tightly coupled to sensor physics, accelerator-specific optimizations and deterministic real-time constraints.”
During her presentation, Ternehäll highlighted the key challenges in deploying portable, updatable ADAS across heterogeneous hardware. She reviewed the practical limitations OEMs and suppliers face, examined the safety implications under evolving regulations and outlined the technical advances needed to enable safe and scalable ADAS.
“I emphasized how true hardware-agnostic ADAS is difficult despite SDV architectures aiming to decouple hardware and software. I also examined the practical challenges OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers face when deploying portable, updatable ADAS stacks across heterogeneous hardware platforms. Finally, I highlighted the technical advances still required to enable scalable, safe ADAS in the SDV era.”
Ternehäll is looking forward to getting out on the show floor to source new partners and solutions: “This event is of a really high quality with a good mix of presentations, as well as suppliers you can talk to and find what you need. I’m here seeking new validation tools and testing partners who can help us do some safety-related testing.”
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