Towards the Self Healing Vehicle

This paper addresses the question of how an intelligent vehicle could play a more proactive role in fault management. In particular, it describes the concept of the Self Healing Vehicle: a vehicle with the ability to autonomously predict or detect and diagnose failure conditions, confirm any given diagnosis, and perform appropriate corrective intervention(s), including the use of telematics to interact with external service providers and infrastructures. The key research questions that need to be answered in order for a self healing vehicle to be realised are explored, and a framework for how this concept might be realised is presented.