Mobileye said TÜV SÜD certified its emergency braking development to ISO 21448

Mobileye announced on October 22 that it had received its first TÜV SÜD inspection certificate for the development process behind its automatic emergency braking function.

The company said the audit inspected conformance with ISO 21448, the safety of the intended functionality standard, and the measures used to identify, evaluate and mitigate risks that can arise even when a system is operating as designed. Mobileye said those include the limitations inherent in sensors, perception systems and the real-world conditions in which advanced driver-assistance systems operate.

The release set its own boundary: Mobileye said the assessment is specific to its automatic emergency braking development process. It is separate from an earlier TÜV SÜD recommendation that the company said it received for its safety management system for SAE Level 4, which covers Mobileye Drive.

Almog Shany, safety officer at Mobileye, said the certificate “provides an independent view of the rigor behind that process and gives our customers additional confidence in the safety approach supporting our AEB function.”

Mobileye’s own announcement is the only dated record of the certificate located. TÜV SÜD’s press-release listing, read on October 23, ran newest-first to October 19 and carried nothing about it, and Mobileye’s filing history with the Securities and Exchange Commission showed nothing after September 14, so the certificate’s own issue date is not in the public record. Mobileye said more than 250 million vehicles have been built with its EyeQ chips.