Abstract
Today, the development of the automotive industry is associated with the phenomena of electromobility, autonomous vehicles, digitisation and telematics. New vehicles contain a large number of electronic control units which process and preserve digital data on the vehicle’s activity and its occupants, including communication with the external environment. This data can also be used for forensic purposes, as described in this paper. Attention is also paid to current trends, problem areas and safety risks. The paper deals with sources, classification, characteristics and uses of digital information in vehicles for forensic purposes from various perspectives, paper describes main problematic issue of Digital Vehicle Forensic. The present-day development, advancement and operation of vehicles is inseparably linked with the introduction of electronic devices and digitisation. As a result of this trend, vehicles process, transmit and save a large quantity of operational data and data connected with the activities of the vehicle’s occupants. This trend has a sharply rising character, especially in connection with the development of electric engines and an effort to create and put into operation entirely autonomous vehicles that do not require the active involvement of a driver in order to reach their established destination.
Highlights
Electronic processes are carried out in the vehicles themselves, which, in addition, communicate with other vehicles and traffic and telematics infrastructure
A contemporary, newly manufactured passenger car contains more than 75 electronic control units which store over 150 million lines of source codes of support programs and which generate over 25 GB of data [1] for every hour for which the vehicle is in operation!
The vehicle is of interest to criminalistics units and other security-oriented institutions which deal with a variety of criminal activities and guarantee general security as such at various levels
Summary
Electronic processes are carried out in the vehicles themselves, which, in addition, communicate with other vehicles and traffic and telematics infrastructure. Forensic and traffic engineers or forensic experts in the field of construction, maintenance and operation of vehicles or related fields are involved in clarifying the course of events and their consequences. In the latter case, the vehicle is of interest to criminalistics units and other security-oriented institutions which deal with a variety of criminal activities and guarantee general security as such at various levels. Every modern vehicle today turns out an enormous volume of data/information which can provide digital evidence that help to explain the course of negative events and their consequences
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