Shenlong Automobile Technology signed a global agreement with Momenta covering assisted driving, Level 3 development and cockpit and E/E integration, for models it plans to sell in Europe from 2027.
Why it matters: Chinese driving software has so far traveled inside Chinese cars; putting it under a Stellantis badge built for Europe tests whether it travels inside anyone else's.
A single paper before the World Forum's general safety working party would write software identification and software-update provisions into regulations covering anti-theft, seats, controls, tell-tales, buses and event recorders at once.
A design win reported in August without its software layer now has one: the camera module going into a German carmaker's global platform runs QNX OS for Safety 8.0, and the stated export markets have changed.
The agency called the industry to a November meeting on why safety recalls go uncompleted, and its notice puts over-the-air software updates, connected-vehicle technology and automated vehicles at the center of the question.
An amendment to the recommended road-test standard would rewrite how test personnel behave and what counts as a pass, so that the test method stops contradicting the mandatory automated-driving safety standard taking effect in July 2027.
A proposal put to the World Forum's general safety working party in Geneva would make the event data recorder capture automatic emergency braking interventions and log drowsiness warnings issued up to an hour before a crash.
A convening of more than thirty commercial-vehicle and motorcycle makers extended an existing production-conformity campaign to component suppliers and testing bodies, with supervisory inspections and public naming to follow.
The company published the software, simulator and design information for an autonomous racing kart to a public repository, after the package served as the common platform in this year's JSAE competition.
The company's updated safety analysis covers fully autonomous operation through the end of June across five metropolitan areas, and rests its opening figure on an estimate with a stated assumption.
A rewrite of the national standard for commercial-vehicle lane keeping went out for comment with a new normative annex that turns architecture descriptions, signal priorities and software version numbers into deliverables to a test house.
An approval draft out for public comment would require nineteen vehicle functions, including the control that activates combined driving assistance, to exist as physical controls wired independently of the centre display.