Discuss the main objectives and benefits of AUTOSAR?

Benefits:

1. Increased re-use of software,
2. Increased design flexibility, Clear design rules for integration
3. Reduction of costs for software development and service in the long term
4. Focus on protected, innovative, and competitive functions

 
Objectives:
 

1. Consideration of availability and safety requirements
2. Redundancy activation
3. Scalability to different vehicle and platform variants
4. Implementation and standardization of basic functions as an industry-wide “standard core” solution
5. Transferability of functions from one ECU to another within the network of ECUs
6. Integration of functional modules from multiple suppliers
7. Maintainability throughout the whole product life cycle
8. Increased use of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware
9. Software updates and upgrades over vehicle lifetime.