The Software Defined Vehicle – Technical and Organizational Challenges and Opportunities

Software-based functionalities will become increasingly important in the vehicle of the future and will also have a decisive influence on buyer behavior. The vehicle is evolving into an integral part of the digital life of customers – with corresponding requirements for usability, the reloading of apps and the temporary activation and deactivation of functionalities such as driver assistance functions. Technically and organizationally, this increase in the importance of software in the vehicle represents both a challenge and an opportunity. On the software and E/E side, architectures must be carefully selected and implemented. Virtualization and containerization become standard techniques to ensure maximum encapsulation, independence and security. From an organizational point of view, software development must be accelerated and become more agile – DevOps will become an integral part of automotive development and will help to improve the development speed and quality of the software. In this paper the authors will provide an overview of how FEV.io assesses the challenges of the Software Defined Vehicle and which possible solutions FEV.io has identified in order to solve the technical and organizational challenges successfully.