Frédéric Ameye - Renault want to sell cars with rust!

Frédéric Ameye discusses Renault's journey of adopting Rust to simplify car architecture, improve cybersecurity, and reduce costs.

Car manufacturers are transforming into software development companies, mainly with the concept of 'Software-Defined Vehicle'. This raises several challenges regarding power management or integration, but also raise new cybersecurity concerns, where communication protocols are more and more complex, and hardware is shared among mixed-criticality software. With millions of lines of code, new protocols, more and more applicative use-cases and complex software, how could the cybersecurity teams keep up the pace? At Renault, we push towards Rust as a way of simplifying the car architecture, reducing costs, improving time to market, and satisfying developers (and cyber folks). We'll explain the beginning of this journey, and what we expect from our company as well as our partners (from SoC vendors to SW suppliers) and the ecosystem.