Vehicles intended for use on roads are built from many components, including safety elements out of context (SEooC). Although the focus of using SEooCs has been typically around hardware elements, the growing use of software in vehicles has made the development of software SEooCs increasingly important.

This whitepaper explains what a software SEooC is, the approaches to implementing and deploying SEooCs to software-defined vehicles – according to the ISO 26262 standard for building automotive vehicles.