BlackBerry’s QNX Black Channel Communications to be used in Motional’s driverless platform

BlackBerry Limited announced its QNX® Black Channel Communications Technology will be used in Motional’s next-generation driverless vehicles. The technology enables Motional to provide safe data communication exchanges within the vehicle’s safety systems.

Certified to ISO 26262 ASIL D, the automotive industry’s functional safety standard, QNX Black Channel Communications Technology is based on the safe data communication requirements identified in IEC 61508 and mitigation measures defined in AUTOSAR End-to-End communications protection profiles. The product makes the countless nodes of data communication in embedded systems functionally safe. By safely encapsulating the data being exchanged and validating it with essential safety checks, it protects data communication from systematic software faults, random hardware faults and transient faults while helping in the automatic prevention of damage from these failures, all with minimal impact on system performance.