Dr. Günter Reichart is Spokesperson of the AUTOSAR Development Partnership and former vice president of driver assistance, body electronics and wiring harness at BMW Group where he worked for 20 years in various positions.

AUTOSAR (AUTomotive Open System ARchitecture) is a worldwide development partnership of vehicle manufacturers, suppliers, service providers and companies from the automotive electronics, semiconductor and software industry. Our motivation is * to manage the software and E/E complexity associated with growth in functional scope * to support the flexibility for product modification, upgrade and update * to leverage the scalability of solutions within and across product lines * to increase scalability and flexibility to integrate and transfer functions * to improve quality and reliability of software and E/E systems Our goal is * to fullfil future vehicle requirements, such as availability and safety, SW upgrades/ updates, and maintainability * to increase scalability and flexibility to integrate and transfer functions * to increase a higher penetration of "Commercial off the Shelf" SW and HW components across product lines * to re-use of software * to accelerate development and maintenance * to improve containment of product and process complexity and risk * to optimize costs of scalable systems