Chrysler filed a second rearview-camera radio recall covering trucks in the first
Two software recalls filed on the same day cover 441,107 vehicles, and the 2026 Ram 1500 appears in the vehicle list of both the new camera campaign and an August one.
Regulation & Standards
The rules vehicle software has to satisfy, and the bodies that write them. Coverage follows UNECE WP.29 regulation and EU type approval, NHTSA rulemaking and exemptions, China's mandatory national standards, and the horizontal digital laws — the Data Act, the Cyber Resilience Act, the AI Act — that keep landing on the vehicle software layer.
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China named vehicle operating systems a gap technology in a new five-year plan
Nine ministries published the 2026-2030 plan for intelligent connected new energy vehicles, listing operating systems and industrial software among the technologies the country has yet to master.
Autoliv opened its crash-simulation human body model to the industry, Toyota first
The supplier made its Human Body Model Safety Suite available as a shared virtual-testing platform and said Toyota had begun using it to evaluate its capabilities.
BMW recalled 218 cars in China because an earlier recall's software update never installed
The regulator's notice said an operational deviation or an abnormal download during two 2024 campaigns left the vehicles short of the target software version.
NHTSA opened an audit query into Tesla's own certification of the Cybercab
The regulator said it will examine the technical data and processes behind Tesla's self-certification that a vehicle without traditional human controls meets every applicable federal safety standard.
Knorr-Bremse put an ISO 24089-certified software update system into series production
The brake supplier said its update-management system is certified to ISO 24089 and already in series production, and that it is adding an open, manufacturer-independent update hub built with Cojali.
Euro NCAP marks down screen-only driving controls in second 2026-protocol batch
The rating body published results for four models on September 2, scoring assisted-driving software, driver monitoring and the design of cabin controls alongside crash performance.
Japan delayed its mandatory cybersecurity and software-update rules for existing models
The transport ministry moved the September 1 application date to November 1 for vehicles already in production, citing earthquake damage to suppliers that left ordered cars unbuilt.
China published its draft traffic law, adding data-security duties for autonomous vehicles
The revised Road Traffic Safety Law went out for public comment on August 28 with an official explanation that requires makers and importers of autonomous vehicles to guarantee network and data security, and bars exaggerated claims about self-driving functions.
NHTSA gave the industry another month to comment on its AV exemption framework
The agency extended the comment period on both its autonomous-vehicle framework guidance and its rewritten Part 555 exemption rule to September 30, after the main US automaker association asked for more time.
China's new size standard exempts radar, cameras and V2X antennas from vehicle limits
SAMR approved a revised mandatory standard on vehicle dimensions that carves out sensing and communication hardware, removing a packaging constraint that has shaped where perception components can sit on a vehicle.
Three Chinese suppliers put by-wire chassis into series production on the same day
Bethel, Tuopu and Huayu each reported brake- or steer-by-wire systems reaching mass production in interim results disclosed on August 28, in a shift Bethel attributed to two national standards that took effect this year.
Four Chinese ministries opened a year-long audit of vehicle software validation
A joint notice from MIIT and three sister ministries launched a one-year national inspection campaign that makes driver-assistance validation, cybersecurity and update logging conditions of market access.
NHTSA filed a third driver study of production cockpit software since August 21
The agency asked OMB to approve an eye-tracked, on-road study of production cockpit interfaces, and said its own design guidance predates large screens, gesture input and in-vehicle commerce.
NavInfo's vehicle-data compliance revenue rose 56% as its chip and ADAS lines shrank
The Beijing mapping and chip supplier said its automotive data-compliance service line grew to 618 million yuan, about a third of group revenue, while unit prices fell across its other businesses.
China set out a digital identity system for every traction battery
A vice minister said the 2026 to 2030 plan will attach a digital identity to each traction battery so that its origin can be traced and its destination checked, alongside new administrative regulations and joint enforcement.
DENSO launched a battery digital product passport service for the EU regulation
The Japanese supplier put its battery passport software into commercial service ahead of the European Battery Regulation's February 2027 deadline, built on a blockchain record and an industry data model.
NHTSA sought clearance to test whether driver monitoring systems detect drowsiness
The agency asked for approval to run a study in Phoenix and Iowa City, saying no consensus method exists for testing drowsiness detection and that the European protocol leaves its own test conditions unspecified.
MIIT said inadequately validated vehicle designs will be barred from the market
A vice minister tied recent quality and autonomous-driving incidents to aggressive designs fitted to vehicles without adequate testing, and set out a drafted five-year plan for intelligent connected new-energy vehicles.
Smart Eye's automotive revenue more than doubled as the EU driver-monitoring rule bit
The Swedish driver-monitoring supplier reported 128 percent organic growth in its automotive business, with royalty revenue from cars already in production up more than 200 percent in the quarter.
China's draft traffic law would make carmakers answer for autonomous-driving violations
A revision of the Road Traffic Safety Law given a first reading on August 25 adds a chapter that shifts enforcement to the manufacturer or importer when a violation happens with the autonomous function switched on.
China opened comment on a mandatory standard for automotive cryptography
A draft mandatory national standard would require Chinese-market vehicles to use approved cryptography to verify software update packages, boot firmware in stages, and authenticate whoever writes calibration parameters through the diagnostic port.
NHTSA widened its GM brake probe to every vehicle sharing the eBoost system
NHTSA upgraded a two-year-old Cadillac Lyriq investigation into an engineering analysis covering an estimated 1.16 million General Motors vehicles built with the eBoost brake system, plus two Honda-badged models GM builds under joint venture.
Nine automakers recalled 4.27 million cars in China, six of them partly over the air
Nine manufacturers filed recalls covering 4,275,743 vehicles over a hard-to-find emergency door release on a single day, and six of them discharged part of the remedy by rewriting window-control software remotely.
Tesla filed a China recall adding cabin-camera driver monitoring to 2.74 million cars
China's market regulator published a recall plan under which Tesla will add in-cabin camera monitoring to 2,740,642 domestically built cars whose existing system did not warn drivers who looked away from the road.
NHTSA sought clearance to test phone projection against built-in cockpit software
The agency submitted a study design that would compare a carmaker's own interface head-to-head with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in the same vehicles.
China licensed Geely's satellite arm to sell IoT connectivity commercially
MIIT granted Geespace a two-year commercial trial licence for satellite Internet of Things services on Geely's own constellation, naming intelligent transportation among the target sectors.
AUTOSAR released CAPI 1.0, a shared code implementation of its Adaptive Platform
The consortium published source code, code generators and a runnable demo of the Adaptive Platform, extending its work from written specifications to software that runs.
FCA US recalled 848,511 vehicles over radio software that hid the rearview camera
The remedy for the Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Ram vehicles is an over-the-air radio software update delivered across all four brands.
Applied Intuition said its simulation platform cleared TÜV SÜD's VIVALDI assessment
The company announced a certification it said makes virtual evidence from its toolchain usable toward UN R171 approval, without publishing a certificate number or the date the assessment finished.
Momenta, XHEART and QNX built a driving platform aimed at Europe's R171 rules
The three companies said their combined stack — Momenta's driving software, XHEART's X7 chip and QNX's safety operating system — has passed ISO 26262 ASIL D certification and is intended for vehicles sold under European driver-assistance rules.
UK consults on mandating UN R171 driver assistance in GB type approval
A six-week Department for Transport consultation would write the UN regulation on driver control assistance, the widened automated lane keeping rules and the EU's new secure-diagnostics conditions into the British approval scheme.
Korea would make carmakers hand inspectors the security keys to EV diagnostics
A draft amendment would require manufacturers to supply the national inspection body with the encryption source needed to build diagnostic testers, free of charge, ten days before a new model goes on sale.
Teradar opened a German subsidiary to take terahertz sensing to European carmakers
The US sensing startup established Teradar GmbH in Wiesbaden as its European headquarters, and named updates to European regulation as the condition for vehicle integration from 2028.
Qualcomm credited its driving stack in the BMW iX3's five-star Euro NCAP rating
Six weeks after Euro NCAP published the result, Qualcomm said the assistance stack it co-developed with BMW contributed to two of the four stages the 2026 protocol scores.
Xen Project opened a shared safety-certification effort with AMD, EPAM and Renesas
The Linux Foundation launched a committee to maintain reusable functional-safety evidence for the Xen hypervisor, so integrators certifying it no longer each rebuild the same artifacts.
Toyota recalled 508,354 Camry Hybrids over an instrument cluster software fault
A display that can fail at startup takes the hazard lights, turn signals and seat-belt warning with it, and the filed remedy is a dealer-applied software update rather than one sent to the car.
NHTSA proposed a one-year delay to its crash-avoidance rating system
A notice that would drop two physical crash tests also pushes back the consumer rating system for driver-assistance technologies, which NHTSA attributed to resource constraints.
Zoox published the risk framework that gates each safety-relevant software release
The company said a formal safety clearance, combining quantified risk across autonomy, platform and operations, had to be met before any safety-relevant software release, hardware change or operations revision.
NHTSA gave Tesla six more weeks on eight of its FSD information requests
A memo in the Engineering Analysis docket shows Tesla asked on August 5 for a partial extension of the August 12 deadline, and that the agency granted September 23 for eight questions, including the one covering modifications to the software.
Einride will put its Level 4 driver software into DAF's electric trucks from 2027
The two companies opened a joint program to integrate Einride's autonomous driving system into DAF's electric truck platform, with Dutch research institute TNO working on the interfaces and on type-approval compliance.
China's MIIT opens comment on a vehicle-cloud communication security standard
The ministry put the approval draft of a security standard for the car-to-cloud link in vehicle-road cooperative systems out for public comment, at the head of a batch of 50 communications-industry standards.
NHTSA gave Tesla until August 12 to document its FSD visibility-degradation fix
The agency's information request, issued July 2, gave Tesla until Wednesday to hand over the design, testing and deployment history of the system meant to detect when Full Self-Driving's cameras are impaired.
DENSO and TÜV Rheinland Japan publish a battery passport data architecture paper
The two companies released a joint technical white paper on August 7 setting out the data definitions and IT architecture requirements that carmakers and battery makers face under the EU Battery Regulation and the Ecodesign Regulation.
ITU-T consents its first software-defined vehicle Recommendation, F.749.22
The UN telecommunications standards body's Study Group 21 consented a Recommendation setting functional requirements for software-defined vehicle services built on vehicle gateway platforms, and South Korea's ETRI announced it on August 6.
Teamsters sue California's DMV over the rules allowing automated heavy trucks
The union filed suit in Alameda Superior Court on August 5, arguing that the DMV wrongly treated the rules as too small to require the economic assessment California reserves for major regulations.
Maextro's V800 launches on what Huawei calls a Level 3-native vehicle architecture
Chinese outlets reported that Huawei's HIMA alliance launched the Maextro V800 and V680 on August 5, with a fourfold-redundant driving computer on the larger car, a day after China's Level 3 safety standard was published.
China makes its L3 and L4 automated-driving safety standard mandatory from July 2027
MIIT said on August 4 that GB 44721—2026 had been approved as a mandatory national standard, replacing the recommended version and setting a single safety baseline for conditional and high automation.
EU calendar sets Cyber Resilience Act vulnerability reporting to start September 11
A European Commission factsheet published August 3 confirmed that reporting duties for actively exploited vulnerabilities and severe incidents begin on September 11, with part of the Data Act following a day later.
NHTSA rewrites Part 555 so exemptions can reach vehicles already built
An interim final rule struck the provision limiting a temporary exemption to vehicles manufactured on or after its effective date, effective immediately with comments due August 31.
China's first national standard for EV service safety takes effect
GB/T 47439-2026 sets out how workshops should handle high-voltage and hydrogen systems on new-energy vehicles, from risk identification to tool checks.
NHTSA publishes interim Part 555 guidance and opens comments through August 31
The notice sets out enhanced application instructions for automated-driving exemptions and discloses 517 alleged ADS crashes and 787 alleged Level 2 crashes reported from June to December 2025.
UNECE task force puts software identification numbers on the agenda for R156
The cybersecurity and over-the-air updates task force will take up extending RXSWIN to UN R156 and pushing R155 duties down onto components and separate technical units.
NHTSA opens a year-long docket to rewrite its 2017 automated-driving guidance
The agency will replace its nine-year-old ADS 2.0 guidance chapter by chapter, publishing drafts as they are ready and keeping the docket open until July 2027.
China's MIIT spot-audits Chery, NIO and JAC on connected-vehicle safety
Ministry inspectors spent two days at three Anhui automakers, randomly selecting sample vehicles and battery packs on site for national-standard compliance testing tied to production access.
China logs two software recalls on GAC Toyota's bZ7, both remedied over the air
Regulator filings cover 39,552 electric sedans with gear-shift and thermal-management software defects — the fix is a free OTA push beginning August 1.
NHTSA grants Zoox the first commercial exemption for a steering-wheel-free robotaxi
The Federal Register notice exempts Zoox's purpose-built vehicle from eight FMVSS requirements written around human drivers, clearing paid rides for up to 2,500 vehicles a year.
NHTSA moves to fast-track the first federal performance standards for automated vehicles
The US Transportation Secretary ordered NHTSA to accelerate national AV performance standards, update a set of federal safety rules and streamline exemptions.
China issues first mandatory national standard for driver-assistance systems
China issued GB 47955-2026, its first mandatory national standard for combined driver-assistance systems, taking effect January 1, 2027.