In the fourth episode of our Ask the Expert podcast, we had the pleasure of welcoming Eric Schmidt. He is Director of the ‘Lead Engineering & Safety’ team at TTTech Auto, the initiating company of The Autonomous and a global player in autonomous driving, focusing on software and hardware solutions and helping OEMs overcome the safety challenges of driverless software development. Throughout his career, Eric has accumulated vast knowledge and experience in functional safety-related development, so we had the chance to dive deeper into all the various technical challenges that come with automated and autonomous systems. Tune in to this educational episode where we interview Eric on the hottest and most important topic nowadays in the AV sector – safety and what it takes to achieve and demonstrate it for autonomous cars.