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Connected and autonomous vehicle technology will forever change the future of transportation. Self-driving cars will make roads a lot safer and space exploration will receive a massive boost. However, today’s self-driving cars are not yet compliant with international certification as regards dependability requirements. For instance, object detection (important for autonomous vehicles) is still not dependable. The EU-funded PERIOD project will propose solutions. Specifically, it will correlate computing architectures and software reliability analyses with the impact of faults in the vehicle behaviour. PERIOD will reduce the probability of misdetection without the time, power and cost overheads that make traditional fault tolerance solutions unsuitable for automotive or aerospace real-time systems.