Auto industry takes cues from mobile phone industry in transformation - Automotive News

The automotive manufacture is taking cues from the mobile telephone manufacture arsenic bundle arsenic a work is driving the translation of a concern historically focused connected hardware.

Thomas Mueller, planetary caput of automotive engineering astatine Bangalore, India-based Wipro Engineering, said Monday astatine the Automotive News Congress successful Detroit that the mobile telephone manufacture separated the telephone from the bundle and embraced mobile exertion services. That's what's presently happening successful the automotive industry, said Mueller, who besides is Wipro's main exertion officer.

Mobile telephone applications are powered by unreality computing, and the car and unreality are connected a akin path.

Automotive startups and bequest automakers are embracing changes astatine antithetic paces and for antithetic reasons.

Currently, startup automakers and accepted automakers person antithetic motivations erstwhile processing their vehicles and services. The erstwhile is looking to widen its ecosystem of manner services that integrate into customers' lives — deliberation euphony and different applications, said Maria Anhalt, CEO and managing manager astatine Erlangen, Germany-based Elektrobit, a planetary supplier of embedded and connected bundle products and services for the automotive industry.

The startups mostly determination quicker, portion astir bequest automakers are slower astatine integrating exertion and look for products and services that are interchangeable with their antithetic conveyance exemplary offerings. But they are changing their thinking, Anhalt said.

Offering "microservices" is not however accepted automakers person operated. In the past, erstwhile they came to bundle markers for services it was fundamentally a transaction, said Wendy Bauer, wide manager of Amazon Web Services' automotive division.

Now the manufacture wants to collaborate with the bundle makers successful improving their products continuously, upskilling their workers and getting much information to cognize their customers better, Bauer said.

When it comes to safety, Steve Schwinke, vice president of lawsuit engagement astatine Silicon Valley-based Sibros, which offers over-the-air bundle updating services to automakers, said the translation the automotive manufacture is undergoing tin assistance amended car safety.

Schwinke utilized the illustration of automakers sharing information from their precocious driver-assistance systems with each different to amended the bundle that powers this service.