EV/ADAS Failure Analysis & Liability

EV and ADAS failure analysis and liability — high-voltage incidents, sensor and software failures, and the expert-workflow for electrified-vehicle claims.

Private cohorts & on-site
Format: 2-day (8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.)
Level: Advanced
Location: Scheduled on demand · on-site at your facility or a regional venue
Date(s): Not yet scheduled for open enrollment. Get notified when it is, or book it privately for your team.
Includes: Certificate of Completion · printed slide binder · take-home reference text

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Faculty

Faculty details for this seminar will be announced with the full schedule.

Fees

Early: $1,895 (payment 4+ weeks ahead)
Standard: $2,095 (check/ACH) · $2,165 (card)

Group discount: $200 off per attendee for 3+ from the same organization.

Also Available

  • Corporate on-site delivery at your facility
  • Private cohort sessions
  • Digital curriculum licensing

Seminar Overview

When an EV or ADAS-equipped vehicle fails — in operation, in a fire, or in a crash — the investigation spans hardware, software, and vehicle dynamics. This seminar teaches the engineering investigation of EV and ADAS failures from the forensics practitioner's standpoint: data extraction, event reconstruction, thermal event investigation, software/controls behavior, and the liability-relevant findings that survive scrutiny. It is the specialist complement that turns ETS's failure-analysis depth toward the electrified, automated fleet.

Ideal Learner

  • Failure-analysis and forensic engineers entering EV/ADAS
  • Vehicle dynamics and crash investigators
  • Battery and thermal-event investigators
  • Product-safety and liability engineers
  • Legal and insurance professionals supporting EV/ADAS claims

Learning Objectives

  • Extract and interpret EV/ADAS event data (EDR, telematics, logs)
  • Reconstruct EV crashes including thermal events and pre-crash behavior
  • Investigate battery thermal events and their propagation
  • Analyze ADAS/software contribution to an incident
  • Build a defensible EV/ADAS failure finding

Consulting Sessions

Seminar attendees can sign up for individual consulting sessions with the instructor. Sessions are free for registered attendees, first-come first-served — sign up when registering by calling 248-539-0473 or during the seminar.

Seminar Outline

  • Types of failures: operational, fire, crash, software
  • The data trail: EDR, V2X, telematics, OTA logs
  • Evidence preservation for EV/ADAS incidents
  • EDR and event data recorders in EV/ADAS vehicles
  • Telematics and cloud data
  • Reconstructing pre-crash automation state
  • Thermal runaway: mechanism, propagation, investigation
  • Post-fire evidence and materials analysis
  • Design-hindsight and liability implications
  • Analyzing ADAS/AV decision and control behavior
  • Bug, bias, and edge-case contribution
  • Human factors in supervision and handover
  • EV-specific dynamics (mass, CoG, high torque)
  • Reconstructing crash severity and mechanism
  • Occupant response in EV crashes
  • Attendees scope and execute an EV/ADAS failure investigation
  • Synthesize the finding across data + physics + software
  • Present a defensible causation chain

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