MARCH 2024 AFTERMARKET 27 www.aftermarketonline.net Self-Driving APPG holds London media briefing on new AV Bill The Self-Driving Vehicles AllParty Parliamentary Group (APPG) held a media briefing in December to provide an overview of the UK’s new Automated Vehicles (AV) Bill. Held at the London HQ of selfdriving tech leader Wayve.ai, the expert panel included Sarah Gates, Director of Public Policy at Wayve, Sarah Thomson, Public Affairs Manager at insurer AXA UK, and Brian Wong, partner and specialist in transport at law firm Burges Salmon. Pleasingly, media in attendance included representatives from automotive, fleet and insurance titles, and also national press. Such wider engagement can only help in terms of educating the public. Following a basic explainer on how the AV Bill will create a new safety and liability framework for the commercial deployment selfdriving vehicles, they ran through essential terminology including Operational Design Domain (ODD), User-In-Charge (UiC), No-User-inCharge (NUiC) and the SAE Levels. Two statistics seemed to capture most attention. The first was that in 2022, road traffic accidents cost the UK economy £43 billion, of which £2.3 billion was a direct cost to the NHS in medical treatment and ambulance services. The second was the DfT estimate that 85% of road traffic accidents are caused by human error including reckless behaviour, disobeying traffic laws, and driver impairment/distraction. The 85% figure came under particular scrutiny, despite The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) backing a higher figure of 95%. Connected car cybersecurity has been one of the hottest automotive topics for a decade now, with increasingly frequent and sophisticated attacks met by ever more advanced defences. The issue went mainstream in 2015 when tech website Wired released footage of hackers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek remotely seizing control of a Jeep containing journalist Andy Greenberg. “Seriously, it’s f*****g dangerous,” he protested as they shut off the engine while he was driving at 70mph. Fast forward to 2023 and the challenge has escalated. According to data analytics provider Upstream, the number of automotive and smart mobility app-related incidents increased by a staggering 380% in 2022, with ‘black-hat actors’ – the bad guys – behind 63% of them. The top three attack vectors were: telematics and application servers (35% of all attacks); remote keyless entry systems (18%); and electronic control units (14%). The main threats, therefore, are safety compromise and theft, either of the car itself or, more likely, data. From a UK perspective, this represents a huge commercial opportunity. Several of our universities consistently rank among the top 10 in the world for cybersecurity courses, sparking a plethora of exciting start-ups. A leading light among them is Belfast-based Angoka, with its hardware solution to what is generally considered a software problem. Established in 2019, it graduated from the National Cyber Security Centre’s prestigious Accelerator programme, and now employs 45 people. Richard Barrington, Director of Smart Cities & Land Mobility at Angoka, said: “The digitisation of the vehicle, drive-by-wire, electronic control systems, and the systems that manage transport at scale are all vulnerable, as are over-the-air (OTA) updates and even the EV charging infrastructure. “One approach is a fortress mentality – encrypt everything, regardless of need. But this doesn’t work in the complex world of connected and automated mobility (CAM). There are too many cracks for bad actors to gain entry. “With the hundreds of devices that make up a modern vehicle – sensors, actuators, controllers, infotainment – coupled with the range of connectivity options needed to transmit, receive and share data, a new model is needed. “Our solution is built from the ground up, secure by design. It starts at an electronic component or subsystem level, so that each device has an immutable identity. It can then safely exchange data with other trusted devices, with encryption applied when needed. It gives us a real opportunity to get ahead of the hackers.” They call it safeguarding critical machine-tomachine communications, and it could be a gamechanger. Hence Angoka’s victory at the recent Self-driving Industry Awards, with CofounderDaniela Menzky, picking up the Trust award. Angoka wins Trust Award for selfdriving cybersecurity We have a range of print and online advertising opportunities available. For more details and our latest Media Pack please contact Angela Lyus. Angela Lyus | Head of Sales +44 (0) 7823 736629 | anglea@aftermarket.co.uk www.aftermarketonline.net
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