The software-defined car is growing rapidly and will impact many parts of the automotive industry, including technology, market segments, business models, regulations, legislations, and all the players from OEMs to suppliers. Today, most cars are connected with 4G or the 5G cellular radio. We at Harman believe by 2025, 90% of the cars will be connected. This brings in an important change in terms of how automotive OEMs would look at technology convergence.
It will start with in-vehicle platforms moving away from Controller Area Network (CAN), Local Interconnect Network (LIN), and FlexRay interfaces to Ethernet. This also brings in a huge change in terms of where they should be investing their computing power, whether it has to be in the vehicle, on edge, or in the cloud. Today, most consumers are focusing on audio streaming applications like Spotify and video streaming services like Netflix coming into the vehicle.
We have also seen many announcements from leading carmakers focusing on the extended reality that brings in augmented windshields, which brings in metaverse types of applications, such as VR gaming, and VR virtual concerts. We also know about different levels of automation (Level 1-5). As the OEMs focus on service-oriented applications and gateways, they bring new use case scenarios.
If we expect the automotive market, which has about $2.5 trillion worth of data coming in the next five years, unlocking it cannot be done without a significant investment in cybersecurity.
Cybersecurity has been a top priority for Automotive OEMs for the last 5 years, whether it is defending against recent Log4j & Spring4shell vulnerabilities or other ransomware attacks. Auto OEMs need to focus on strengthening their security environment with thousands of suppliers.
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