Apparatuses and methods are disclosed for controlling a vehicle comprising a plurality of modules (Fig.1, 102-104). A method comprises receiving at least one identifier e.g. MAC or serial number, of at least one vehicle component and using the identifier to determine whether the vehicle component is in accordance with or matches a predefined vehicle configuration. The vehicle component is authenticated or approved in response to determining that the component is in accordance with the predefined vehicle configuration 430. The operation of the component or the vehicle may only be permitted 440, 450 if it has been authenticated. An indication of the authentication may be provided on a display screen. The modules may include components such as electric motors, fuel tanks, lighting, pumps etc. The authentication may be performed by transmitting the identifier of the component to an external server and receiving a comparison result indicating whether the identifier matches at least one of those in the vehicle configuration.
Configuring a vehicle
2018-01-03
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
Device and method for configuring a vehicle device and method for configuring a vehicle
European Patent Office | 2017
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