Software-Defined Vehicles (SDV)

Software-defined vehicles decouple software development from hardware cycles, enabling continuous feature updates, improvements, and new capabilities to be delivered over-the-air without requiring physical hardware changes. This architecture treats vehicles as platforms where software can be updated independently, similar to smartphones, allowing manufacturers to add new features, fix bugs, improve performance, and enhance safety long after vehicles leave the factory.

The separation enables faster innovation cycles, as software teams can develop and deploy features independently of hardware development timelines. This approach supports subscription-based services, personalized experiences, and the ability to monetize software features. Software-defined vehicles use centralized computing architectures, standardized interfaces, and cloud connectivity to enable remote updates, diagnostics, and feature activation. This transformation is fundamental to enabling autonomous driving capabilities, advanced driver assistance systems, and personalized in-vehicle experiences that can evolve throughout a vehicle's lifetime.