Networking Vehicles to Everything

Chapter 8

Outlook

The vehicle ecosystem is an industry in transformation. Automated and autonomous driving is accelerating the transformation of vehicles and the vehicle infrastructure from hardware-defined to software-defined solutions. The way toward automated and autonomous driving is forked with two developments running in parallel. There is the evolutionary improvement of private personal vehicles toward partial autonomy and there is the disruptive introduction of fully automated and autonomous driving as a new mode of mobility as a service is comprised of vehicle fleets. All global geos participating, but in different ways and at different speeds. In short and midterm in China and the United States, the software giants of Baidu, Alibaba, ...