Overview

As part of their recently announced collaboration COVESA and AUTOSAR are leveraging their respective strengths to collaboratively create an open Vehicle API.  This Vehicle API will expose vehicle data as defined and described by COVESA's Vehicle Signal Specification to a  variety of agreed upon touch-points in and out of the vehicle (see the below diagram for examples).    The plan is to provide access to this vehicle data through an extensible plugin architecture that will support a variety of well known protocols and an open license model. 

Working Model

COVESA and AUTOSAR have agreed to create/charter two teams to work towards the Vehicle API:  Vehicle API Legal and Vehicle API Technical.

Vehicle API Legal

The Vehicle API Legal team will address Intellectual Property Rights and licensing.  

Working draft charter is here

Vehicle API Technical

The Vehicle API Technical team will define the Vehicle API.

Working draft charter is here.