The top benefits of the standard include: • Helping OEMs remain competitive with innovative functions. • Providing OEMs with increased design flexibility. • Increasing suppliers' efficiency in functional development. • Offering tool providers with common interfaces for development processes. • Granting tool providers a seamless, manageable, and task optimized work environment. Who Should Use the AUTOSAR Standard? Development teams coding in C++14 should use the standard. Automotive Developers The standard is especially important for teams developing automotive software. That’s because the industry is moving towards autonomous vehicles. AUTOSAR has responded by creating the Adaptive Platform for connected and autonomous vehicles.