Car Industry Changing Under The Hood
Auto electronics are becoming more centralized, connected, and complex, and the entire supply chain is realigning around those shifts.
After an initial burst of autonomous activity, the automotive ecosystem regrouped, re-evaluated its goals, and is now ready to begin deploying new technologies made possible by modern development approaches and forward-looking vehicle architectures.
The pandemic hurt vehicle sales in 2020, but it also gave the OEMs a chance to catch their breath. Panic over announcements from other carmakers about fully autonomous vehicles in 2018 and 2019 have subsided, and reality has set in.
“People have had time to stop and think and realized they had better get started on something here, and it’s centered around trying to intersect the 2025 – 2026 model year,” observed David Fritz, senior director for Autonomous and ADAS at Siemens Digital Industries Software. “The world’s leading automotive OEMs are now preparing to adopt, if they haven’t already, next-generation architectures. This means understanding what they look like, what’s inside of them, the similarities between what smartphones and tablets have done in the past, and how that intersects with where things are headed.”