Automotive Cyber Physical Systems in the Context of Human Mobility

We discuss the limitations of the current automotive Cyber Physical System (CPS). Its vehicle-centric view only provides partial information about the surrounding environment, it is not well suited to address the needs of embedded humans in the system, and it moves too slowly to keep pace with other technologies. In the larger context of human mobility, the automotive CPS must become more open and flexible, new human mobility models need to be developed, and the key issue of privacywill need to be addressed to protect increasingly important and prevalent location based data.