Focus on digital accident analysis and safety: THI opens centre for vehicle forensics

How can an accident be digitally reconstructed - or electricity theft in an electric car proven? The new Centre for Vehicle Forensics at the THI will be researching this, among other things, in the future. At the opening ceremony, scientists gave an impressive demonstration of how modern forensics and Automotive Engineering work together.

 

Professor Walter Schober, President of THI, at the opening of the new Centre for Vehicle Forensics – marking another milestone in advancing innovation. (Photo: THI)

The centre combines scientific expertise, practical research and technological innovation. In times of networked and automated mobility, vehicle forensics makes a decisive contribution to strengthening trust in data, analysis methods and vehicle safety.

Together with partners such as CARISSMA and DEKRA, THI aims to set new standards in accident analysis and vehicle safety. A live demonstration of power theft from a Tesla - a project that was recently honoured with the Best Paper Award at the international "USENIX Symposium on Vehicle Security and Privacy (VehicleSec'25)" - illustrated just how application-oriented the research is.

During laboratory tours, guests were given insights into current projects - from the testing of environmental sensors in automated vehicles to V2X communication and the virtual reconstruction of road accidents.

The centre has state-of-the-art electronics and testing laboratories in which control units and complete vehicles can be analysed. THI is thus creating the basis for the digital main inspection of the future.

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