Israeli Start-Up Uses Over-The-Air Car Updates For ‘Self-Healing’

A small Israeli start-up by the name of Aurora Labs has developed an innovative software suite for what it describes as a ‘self-healing car.’

With the rise of electric, autonomous, and connected cars, the number of passenger vehicles available with over-the-air updates continues to grow. Aurora Labs has taken this one step further by developing a system that is able to detect and fix potential vehicle functions and update the car remotely without any downtime.

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The Line-Of-Code Behavior technology used by Aurora Labs uses machine learning and artificial intelligence and creates a deep understanding of the software installed in over 100 vehicle ECUs. Should the system detect a fault or an impending fault, an over-the-air update can be automatically installed or a short-term fix can be applied to ensure the vehicle remains operational, reducing the need for large recalls.

The Jerusalem Post reports that Aurora Labs has raised $11.5 million since being founded in 2016 and is working with a number of large car manufacturers from Germany, the U.S., Japan, and Korea, to implement its system.

“The human body can detect when something is not quite right before you pass out,” executive vice president of marketing Roger Ordman described.

“The auto-immune system indicates something is wrong and what can be done to fix it: raise your temperature or white blood count. Sometimes the body can do a self-fix, and sometimes that’s not enough and needs an external intervention. Our technology has the same kind of approach – detecting if something has started to go wrong before it causes a catastrophic failure, indicating exactly where that problem is, doing something to fix it, and keeping it running smoothly.”