Carota, a prominent provider of global OTA upgrades, remote diagnosis, and fleet solutions, has entered a partnership with Drimaes, a Korean company specialized in smart mobility solutions. The agreement aims to introduce OTA functionality into smart control solutions for vehicles, enhance existing software and hardware ecosystem, and provide feature solutions such as Fleet Management System (FMS), Over-the-Air (OTA) updates, OTA update testing, vehicle security, and remote management.

Volvo’s new EX90 flagship electric SUV packs in safety tech like lidar and other sensors that the company says will be available to everyone at launch.

For a pleasant driving experience, the longitudinal, lateral and vertical dynamics of a vehicle must be harmoniously coordinated. This is especially true for automated driving, when the driver turns away from active driving and the focus is on comfort. This is where ZF‘s cubiX software comes into play: It controls all chassis systems and ensures harmonious acceleration and braking, precise steering, and balanced damping.

This year there was a major increase in drivers who are afraid, rising to 68% as compared to 55% in 2022. This is a 13% jump from last year’s survey and the biggest increase since 2020*. AAA believes automakers must be diligent in creating an environment that promotes the use of more advanced vehicle technologies in a secure, reliable, and educational manner. This includes the consistent naming of vehicle systems available to consumers today.

Le futur magasin d'applications made in Volkswagen sera déployé à partir de l'été 2023, en commençant par la marque Audi. Regarder une vidéo sur TikTok et publier sur Yelp depuis le tableau de bord de sa voiture ? Le groupe automobile VW a dévoilé qu'il déploierait dès l’été prochain, un magasin d’applications embarqué dans les véhicules de ses différentes marques. Les futurs propriétaires de plusieurs modèles 2023 d'Audi seront les premiers bénéficiaires de cette nouvelle fonctionnalité. Le logiciel sera ensuite étendu aux véhicules Porsche, Lamborghini, Bentley et Volkswagen.

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) is planning to commercialize its Connected Car Data Initiative to reduce traffic congestion & CO2 emissions. The initiative was developed by its subsidiary firm named NTT Data, which is a global digital and IT services provider based in Japan.

Ahead lies a battle between the giants of the tech industry that will redefine the automotive digital cockpit and the in-cabin experience.

Ford Motor Co. has applied for a patent on a system designed to try and get people to clear up late car payments that, when all else fails, could lead to cars driving themselves to repo lots.

An article about how the software-defined vehicle will change how we experience mobility

A new survey by AAA found that 68% of Americans "fear" the technology, an increase of 13% from last year. "We were not expecting such a dramatic decline in trust from previous years," said Greg Brannon, director of automotive research for AAA. "Although with the number of high-profile crashes that have occurred from over-reliance on current vehicle technologies, this isn’t entirely surprising."

The ethics of self-driving cars have been questioned for a long time for accident-related instances. Even today, self-driving cars face several dilemmas that need to be addressed urgently.

Adaptive planning, evolutionary development, early delivery, continual improvement, flexible responses to changes in requirements – all these agile practices are considered standard in modern software development. Yet firmware development for connected devices seems stuck in the past; bound to follow the waterfall model that ends with the shipping of devices.

Introducing new features — decoupled from the hardware development cycle — means that electronics architecture and hardware must now be designed to support the software, not the other way around. This applies not just to advanced connectivity or ADAS features, but also to every system in the car, including steering, braking, propulsion, etc.

“We have never been in a more dangerous place in automotive-safety history, except for maybe right when cars were invented and we hadn’t figured out brake lights and headlights yet.”

The general public has a variety of judgments about self-driving cars, with some people embracing the promise of the technology and others clinging to skepticism and concerns. And many people are taking a wait-and-see attitude holding out for the technology to prove itself before surrendering the wheel.

Nearly 1.1 million vehicles are among the latest car recalls, with Nissan, Tesla and Ram each recalling hundreds of thousands of cars, trucks, SUVs and minivans. The recalls were reported by the carmakers or by the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Cars always have externalities on their environment, from pedestrians to other vehicles to just random Seven-Elevens. So any quality issue impacts not only the driver but also their surrounding. This is true if the malfunction is electrical or mechanical, but even truer with software, which aims to interpret the environment and decide how the car should behave in such settings. In particular, the software will determine whether to yield to a pedestrian crossing the road and the distance it needs to maintain to the next car when the road is icy. So software-related issues have the potential to impact more people than standard quality issues, a fact that is supposed to make us even more sensitive to such software-related issues.

Connectivity essentially establishes cars as nodes upon the Internet of Things (IoT), so that in addition to providing safe transport, people's vehicles increasingly function as a service delivery platform. This is where interdependencies between onboard telematics, which connect the car to the outside world, and cloud-enabled services and software are charting the connected vehicle into the future.

Last Wednesday, Tesla issued a safety recall for its nearly 363,000 vehicles using the carmaker's controversial Full Self-Driving (FSD) Beta software upgrade.

The software-defined vehicle is likely to be the future of the automotive industry. And it necessitates a software-centered organization. The only question is how today’s legacy auto manufacturers will evolve and embrace this new revolution.