Frankfurt, Germany, July 9, 2025. Continental is underlining its pioneering role in digital mobility with a white paper entitled “Mobility applications for software-defined vehicles – an approach based on verifiable credentials.” It illustrates how, beyond merely serving as a means of transport, vehicles could in the future become versatile platforms for intelligent software solutions – including for real-time traffic management.
The focus of the publication is on so-called verifiable credentials (VCs), which are regarded as a key technology for greater security and data protection in connected mobility applications. Continental outlines a practical approach for how verifiable credentials can enable trustworthy communication between vehicles, infrastructure and digital services – a crucial step on the path to secure, software-defined mobility of the future.
Verifiable credentials are a standardized, cryptographically secure format for digitally representing information – such as details about a vehicle or a user – enabling unique and trustworthy identification. The white paper was created as part of the publicly funded cooperation project GAIA-X 4 AGEDA, a subproject of GAIA-X 4 Future Mobility, in which Continental is taking a leading role together with well-known partners from industry and research to address the central challenges of increasing connectivity and digitalization in the automotive sector.