If you think the constant comparison of modern cars to smartphones is becoming redundant, you haven’t heard the half of it. The amount of electronic elements making their way into the design of future vehicles would leave even the boldest past predictions into shame. The same can be said for electronics built specifically to help with the creation of the necessary infrastructure for autonomous driving in extensive city centers.
Shaky grounds
While innovation is the name of the game, it’s currently not being based on the most solid of foundations. Supply chain challenges are still an ongoing struggle, countless safety regulations need to be considered, suitable software is still being developed, and the relationships among OEMs, suppliers and semiconductor producers are constantly changing – all of these factors make for a fairly unstable ground to adjust to the necessary and inevitable changes on the automotive electronics landscape.
Preparing for change
As electrification and increasing customer expectations and demands influence the market, the car industry is in for a shakeup of a century. Consumers are expecting their cars to start playing a similar role to their beloved smartphones, whilst boasting a number of new services and features and offering safety like never before. Considering the already baffling electrical architecture of current offerings on the market including hundreds of electronic control units, pushing things further is quite a tall order to say the least.
Feeling the outside influences, the fact is that automotive design is going to be turned upside down. OEMs are gearing up to embrace domain-based architecture with the help of high-performance computers, figuring out ways to take the safety of cars to a whole new unprecedented level and do all of that while fighting for their direct access to automotive design.
Let us know when do you think all of these ambitious plans will come into fruition and how do you see those changes reflecting on the average price tag.
Source: eetimes.com
