FROM REDUNDANCY TO RESILIENCE: building smarter safety systems through sensor collaboration

ADAS sensor fusion can provide improved and required safety technologies by rethinking the best strategy for allowing a car to sense the world.

For more than a decade, vehicle safety has advanced as ADAS have become more capable. Features once considered premium, such as automatic emergency braking, forward-collision warning, blind-spot detection and lane-keeping assist, are increasingly common across new vehicles. The impact is significant, with current ADAS technologies expected to prevent 27 million collisions and 250,000 deaths over the next quarter-century.

Despite this progress, the sensing technologies powering these systems are still far from their full potential. Regulatory expectations are rising, NCAP performance thresholds are tightening, compute architectures are centralizing, and software-defined vehicle initiatives demand a level of sensing reliability and adaptability that traditional, siloed ADAS designs were never built for.