
Welcome to Smart Safety
Decluttering automotive safety ISO 26262 standard for beginners and professionals
Thinking of a career in safety?
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How do I start a career in automotive functional safety?
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What safety standards should I know?
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What kind of projects do safety professionals work on?
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What skills do I need to have to get a job in functional safety?
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How do I switch to autonomous vehicle safety from conventional automotive functional safety?
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Do I need help with interview prep?

Safety Development Lifecycle
Learn about different phases of safety lifecycle and how to implement functional safety
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V Model
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Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment (HARA)
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ASIL (Automotive Safety Integrity Level) rating determination
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Safety requirements specification
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Verification and Validation (V&V) methods
System Safety Architecture
Learn how to design an architecture for safety-critical systems
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Architecture definition with multiple ASIL requirements
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System (software + hardware) level ASIL decomposition
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Freedom from interference (FFI)


Safety Analysis
Learn about different approaches to perform safety analysis on the critical system and identify potentially hazardous software faults
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SW-FMEA (Software - Failure Modes and Effects Analysis)
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SW-FTA (Software - Fault Tree Analysis)
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HSI (Hardware - Software Interface)
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DFA (Dependent Failure Analysis)
Autonomous Vehicle Safety
Learn about technical challenges of applying functional safety to an autonomous (self-driving) vehicle
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Modifying existing standard for the autonomous world
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Key pillars of safety - functional safety, SOTIF (safety of the intended functionality), cyber security and more
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Verification and Validation (V&V) methods
