From the past to the future, mobility is the heartbeat of life, and achieving it seamlessly will enable everyone to enjoy life more fully. Technological advances will facilitate the transportation of what is important to us, our daily commute and life, while using resources in environmentally friendly ways. Therefore, we engineers must cope with the challenges of novel systems or even systems of systems. For example, interfaces and interconnectivity between products and services increase, while time to market gain speed and user interaction grows.

All these changes influence the development and safe operation of our systems. To ensure our systems are as safe as reasonably possible, more than reliability and teamwork is required. During the last century, reliability and technical understanding have drastically improved and achieved a high standard for product development and standardization. However, in the last decades, the human-machine interface has become a huge topic, not only for automotive but also for other safety-critical industries, like aerospace. Since the industry cannot easily change human behavior and habits, we had to learn to adapt the usability of system operations to them. Straightforward to the present, safety culture must come from inside the organization, team, and each colleague.

In this presentation, we will strive for the development of holistic safety engineering and demonstrate the need for resilient systems and their meaning. Additionally, we show the benefit of interaction and collaboration with systems engineering and vice versa. All aspects help us to provide a view to increase safety culture and prepare us for future challenges.

• How to navigate the increasing interfaces between products and services, coupled with accelerated time-to-market demands?
• What are the challenges of changing human behavior and why is a safety culture ingrained within the organization, team, and colleagues necessary for safe system operation?
• How to ensure the development and operation of automotive systems that meet high safety standards and adapt to the dynamic technological landscape?