Nowadays functional safety is increasingly pervading many industrial applications due to a continuously growing attention on how technology impacts society. Systems are always asked to be faster and stronger with respect to to their predecessors, to obtain more efficient and comfortable overall behaviour of the final product. According to this, modern electronic actuators have much more control on the surrounding mechanical parts, thus requiring particular attention on the action they are allowed to perform. In the automotive field, the ISO 26262 regulates the design processes needed to develop systems with a reduced risk of harming people. In particular, the norm focuses on the safety measures needed to bring the potential high risk of an item under a predefined threshold.