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Byline: Molly Boigon The automotive software on display at CES in Las Vegas will highlight in-vehicle chatbots, larger and higher-resolution infotainment displays and more personalized experiences catered to different drivers [...]

Byline: Nick Gibbs Tata Technologies credits India's "talent at scale" for helping land the latest collaboration in BMW's TechWorks global digital creation network. The two companies in October set up [...]

JOHN WALL HEAD OF QNX, BLACKBERRY BlackBerry is opening up access to its QNX operating system source code, a new approach for John Wall, 56, and the Canadian tech giant [...]

President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to unwind many of President Joe Biden's initiatives as he sets up a new administration for his return to the White House in January. It [...]

Byline: Molly Boigon Automakers will have to work hard to categorize supply chains and bills of materials to comply with a proposed ban on Chinese software and hardware in connected [...]

Byline: Lois Hoyal and Douglas A. Bolduc Tesla, Rivian and Chinese electric vehicle makers continue to maintain a big lead over legacy automakers such as JLR and Toyota in the [...]

Tesla Inc. employees who review and label video clips to help train the company's Autopilot software were told to ignore signs banning U-turns and right turns on red lights, according [...]

Byline: Douglas A. Bolduc Polestar CEO Thomas Ingenlath sees "amazing innovation potential and power" resulting from the move to software-defined vehicles. "It's not just a buzzword," Ingenlath said about the [...]

Byline: Paige Hodder The CDK Global outage forced many finance and insurance managers across the country to craft deals by hand. For some, it was a return to the old [...]

Byline: Molly Boigon As automakers push forward in the quest for software-defined vehicles, analysts and software experts are suggesting a system to clarify the stages of the transition. Stakeholders want [...]

Byline: Pete Bigelow Giant chipmakers such as Qualcomm, Nvidia and Mobileye have become linchpins in the auto industry's efforts to transform vehicles into rolling supercomputers. The three companies are locked [...]

Byline: Molly Boigon Salesforce has launched an application that will allow automakers to monitor telematics data, offer drivers personalized services and support payments through a vehicle's infotainment system. The application, [...]

Byline: Lois Hoyal and Douglas A. Bolduc Volkswagen Group supplier TTTech Auto said the race isn't yet won for software-defined vehicles as automakers scramble to form partnerships, partially out of [...]

Byline: Molly Boigon Automakers including Ford and General Motors are carving out their own fleet management systems to try to reclaim telematics customers -- and they are laying on the [...]

Byline: Molly Boigon As consumers experience new vehicle features such as advanced driver-assist technologies, artificial intelligence-enabled voice assistants and TikTok in the cockpit, the famously competitive automotive industry is getting [...]

Byline: Georgia Hall Software-defined vehicles, advancements in battery and charging technology and improved reuse and recycling of components could generate over $660 billion in revenue for the auto industry by [...]

Byline: Molly Boigon Intel has called it 'the vehicle of the future.' Linux Foundation says it represents 'the critical driver of the automotive industry in the next decade.' Morgan Stanley [...]

Byline: Lois Hoyal The industry's transition to software-defined vehicles offers up many hurdles and will require 'courage,' according to a top Qualcomm executive speaking at an automotive-focused Reuters conference last [...]

Byline: Douglas A. Bolduc Electric-first automakers such as Tesla and Nio outshined established automakers such as JLR and Toyota in a ranking that grades companies on their software skills. The [...]

Byline: Molly Boigon Hyundai Motor Group, General Motors, Tesla Inc. and other automakers already offer in-car payment solutions that allow connected vehicles to buy parking and fuel right through the [...]

Byline: Karn Dhingra The Biden administration wants to shift cybersecurity burdens from individuals, small businesses and local governments to automakers and other big companies. The White House's national cybersecurity strategy [...]

Byline: Mark Hollmer CDK Global has launched CDK Dealership Xperience, a megaplatform that it says will incorporate multiple dealership workflows, boost customer service capacity and eliminate the need for extra [...]

Byline: Laurence Iliff Tesla CEO Elon Musk said a 'major OEM' is interested in licensing the software and hardware that the electric vehicle maker is developing for vehicle autonomy. He [...]

Byline: Eileen Falkenberg-Hull and Jake Lingeman Since its inception the auto industry has always been, first and foremost, about change. Automakers have always sought out new technologies, new styles, new [...]

Byline: Mark Hollmer Work Truck Solutions targets an auto retailing niche: helping dealers better manage their commercial inventory and connect with buyers. That focus fills a market void, leaving industry [...]

Byline: Douglas A. Bolduc and Nathan Eddy Continental Chief Technology Officer Gilles Mabire has a unique way of explaining the difficulty of the industry's move to software-defined vehicles. 'We are [...]

Byline: John Irwin As the importance of automotive software grows, the industry will need to do more to attract top talent in the field amid stiff competition from Silicon Valley [...]

All drivers have had this experience: A car ahead is traveling an unsteady course. It drifts out of its lane into oncoming traffic or the lane to the right or [...]

Byline: Sebastian Blanco As drivers watch the road, their cars will be watching them. While some automakers use sensors on the steering column to track the driver's attention, Magna's Driver [...]

Byline: John Irwin Countless data points gathered by vehicles every day on public roads can be used to improve safety and traffic flow and speed up emergency response times. British [...]

Byline: Hans Greimel Fast-moving Hyundai Motor Group says it will plow billions of dollars into developing software in a move to speed product development and boost revenue, including the creation [...]

Byline: Urvaksh Karkaria More than a decade ago, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen famously claimed, 'Software is eating the world.' That trend certainly is reverberating through the automotive world. What was [...]

Byline: John Irwin Forvia, the French supplier formed by Faurecia's acquisition of Hella, came into being in large part because of Faurecia's need to add more software engineers to its [...]

Byline: John Irwin A new software stack developed by steering supplier Nexteer Automotive and Israeli tech startup Tactile Mobility allows vehicles to get a better 'feel of the road' in [...]

Byline: Vince Bond Jr. Stellantis challenged groups of college students to devise apps that use real-time vehicle data to 'gamify' driving. The April 'hackathon' in Detroit yielded numerous creations meant [...]

Byline: Vince Bond Jr. CEO Carlos Tavares says Stellantis has its sights set on becoming an 'automotive tech company,' and it's collaborating with Amazon to make this vision a reality. [...]

Is it a car, or a mobile datacenter? The automobile is undergoing profound changes on the road to electrification and autonomy, vastly complicating the job of design and test engineers. [...]

Legacy automakers that abandon their century-old business models in favor of electric vehicles have a profound problem: EVs aren't nearly as profitable as the vehicles they are making now. Yet [...]

Dealers get a 'tech stack' for commercial sales * WINNER: Work Truck Solutions * INNOVATION: Commercial vehicle business model * FIRST CUSTOMER: Corning Ford To help auto dealers run their [...]

Byline: Hans Greimel Lots of data is a mixed blessing when programming the autonomous cars of tomorrow. Too little, and it is nearly impossible to develop software that can tackle [...]

Byline: Pete Bigelow Short of Apple's secretive foray into automated and electric vehicles, perhaps the most interesting ongoing mystery in the automotive industry revolves around Sony Group Corp. and its [...]

Byline: Pete Bigelow Batteries should no longer be treated like traditional vehicle components, manufactured like widgets and shipped into the ether. They're more akin to newborn babies. Much like DNA, [...]