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Georg Fässler, Continental's head of commercial and special
vehicles, is executive chair of SAE's 2024 COMVEC event.
" Integrating digital solutions
and connectivity technologies
is key to making commercial
vehicles future-proof. "
as the industry's most exciting innovation today.
How to effectively achieve a " software-defined
future " will be core to the SAE COMVEC agenda.
" Just as passenger cars, commercial vehicles will
increasingly rely on software-enabled functions,
with software being decoupled from hardware for
rapid development and over-the-air (OTA) updates
- particularly with the emergence of modern driverassistance
systems and the eventual transition to
automated and fully autonomous driving, " he said.
Continental and other industry players already
have made significant strides toward realizing
software-defined commercial vehicles. " We've
succeeded in decoupling hardware from software
while offering reliable middleware, " Fässler asserted.
As these vehicles increasingly become part of the
Internet of Things (IoT), software will be tasked
with processing, managing and distributing the
influx of real-time data to and from the cloud.
These advances also will reshape the vehicle's
internal structure. " Automated driving, in particular,
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Lessons learned and technologies developed with Aurora for an upcoming
SAE L4 automated driving system will benefit Continental's passenger vehicle
customers as well.
will require an exponential increase in a vehicle's computing power,
demanding to process the data flood securely, reliably and quickly, "
Fässler said. " This results in a shift towards a centralized vehicle
architecture (E/E and software) with more powerful computing units
and consequently ever-growing significance of cybersecurity. "
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Automated driving will require an exponential increase in a vehicle's computing power.
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