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In his clos ing keynote in Frankfurt,
Prof. Dr. Ralf Herrtwich, Senior Vice
President and Member of the Board at
Here, the digital map provider, empha-
sised that, “It is astonishing to see the
innovative power with which start-ups, Marc-Oliver Matthias,
still unknown today, present us with not Head of Innovation
just new solutions, but also exactly the Lab of the German
insurance firm R+V
right ideas and development – including Allgemeine Versiche-
in the domain of big data”. Here began rung, is convinced
life as a start-up in Berlin. Herrtwich that within the next
moved to Daimler in 2016, at the time as 15 years the establis- © Uli Regenscheit | ATZlive
hed and established
Head of Vehicle Automation and Chassis value chain in its divi-
Systems, where he worked on self-dri- sion will no longer
ving vehicles and made the “Bertha exist
Benz Drive” possible. The new automo-
tive head of Here wants to create the
most complete virtual representation of
our world in realtime by using self- manufacturer – in this case by buying of Things (IoT). The company was
updating maps. Here and their clients a start-up. founded in 2012 by the renowned
Audi, BMW and Daimler want to employ Security know-how: another prime crypto grapher Dr. Scott Vanstone and
the use of the automated vehicle’s own discipline with which the participants Sherry Shannon-Vanstone, the inven-
sensors. Changes in the map data are of the conference occupied themselves tor of Embedded Security.
then uploaded by the vehicles and and with which ATZlive will continue to
distributed to the following vehicles sharpen its focus on in the coming years. SECURITY, BEYOND THE VEHICLE
from the Here cloud in realtime. Start-ups are in. Israel has managed
“Automotive Google“: Here’s auto- to position itself as a prime location The numerous disciplines in the area
motive head Herrtwich is not too pleased for start-ups. Canada is also very of driver assistance and auto mated dri-
to hear this analogy. However, this accu- much in the forefront when it comes ving require technical inno vation as
rately describes Here’s possible future to know-how: Etas announced its take- well as company-wide and socio-politi-
unconfirmed plans concerning the posi- over of TrustPoint Innovation Techno- cal changes. Technical security solu-
tion of a data collector (with more than logies based in Waterloo in the Cana- tions in software and hardware have
just automotive services). The one-time dian province of Ontario. The aim is to economic influence. Two aspects were
start-up with other shareholders (10 % further strengthen their global expertise discussed in the fringes of the confe-
each) such as Chinese data collectors in the domain of embedded security. rence: One was concerned with crea-
(Navtech, Tencent) is a perfect example TrustPoint Innovation Technologies ting awareness in companies concer-
of what was expected from the classical has know-how and technologies in the ning the urgency and seriousness of
and traditional automotive industry area of secure Machine-to-Machine the multi-faceted topic. A representative
years ago: to be more than just a vehicle (M2M) communication in the Internet post on the board, to which both
economists and technicians should
be appointed, would make sense. This
suggestion came from Etas.
The other concerned the aspects of
recruiting and the selection of security
partners. Serious considerations are
currently on-going regarding the evalua-
tion of the few security strongholds in
the world: Israel at number one, Canada
at number two, in front of the US Silicon
Valley. Who and which culture should
© Uli Regenscheit | ATZlive These are the security-relevant ques-
you trust? Who can work with whom?
tions. Answers can be heard at the
4 International ATZ Conference
th
“Driving Assistance Systems – From

18 and 19 April 2018 no longer in Frank-
“Legislation can constrain innovations, as well it can encourage. With the new regulation on Assistance to Automated Driving” on
furt but first in Wiesbaden (Germany).
automated driving in the german StVG, the legislator has taken a great step in the right direction”,
promotes Prof. Dr. Hilgendorf, Ordinarius for Criminal Law, Criminal Procedural Law, Legal
Theory, Information Law and Legal Information at Universität Würzburg (Germany) Markus Schöttle
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