IEEE Spectrum: This Car Runs on Code - The Diigo Meta page

• 05 Mar 11
  

  Beth Mitchell

  Code

• 15 Mar 10
  

  netsuke87

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• 08 Feb 10
  

  luis sison
• 11 Jan 10
  

  Yu Tang Lee

  R&D software cars

• 18 Dec 09
  

  Olivier Biot
  • if you bought a premium-class automobile recently, ”it probably contains close to 100 million lines of software code,”
  • All that software executes on 70 to 100 microprocessor-based electronic control units (ECUs) networked throughout the body of your car.
  • the radio and navigation system in the current S-class Mercedes-Benz requires over 20 million lines of code alone and that the car contains nearly as many ECUs as the new Airbus A380
  • most new cars are executing tens of million of lines of software code, controlling everything from your brakes to the volume of your radio
  • more than 80 percent of car innovations come from computer systems and that software has become the major contributor of value
  • The cost of electronics as a percent of vehicle costs climbed from around 5 percent in the late 1970s to 15 percent by 2005
  • Within 10 years, some experts predict that the percentages relating to the cost of electronics as a percent of vehicle cost are expected to rise to 50 percent for conventional vehicles and 80 percent for hybrids

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