The News: General Motors and Red Hat announced a collaboration aimed at advancing software-defined vehicles, a significant convergence between the technology and transportation industries. Read the Press Release from Red Hat here.
Analyst Take: A newly announced collaboration between General Motors and Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source software solutions, is intended to help accelerate the development of new features for software-defined vehicles. The partnership centers around the Red Hat In-Vehicle Operating System, a functional-safety certified Linux OS, which will serve as the foundation for General Motors’ Ultifi end-to-end software platform. Ultifi has a planned phased rollout beginning in 2023, and the integration of Red Hat’s operating system will allow for much faster development of valuable features.
General Motors and Red Hat’s collaboration on new features, apps, and services for software-defined vehicles is an exciting convergence between the technology and transportation industries at a time when software-defined features are an important differentiator for vehicle brands. Consumers looking to the future of the driving experience will benefit from accelerated development and innovation enabled by Ultifi’s Linux-based system, including the ability of GM-authorized third-party developers to experiment with leading edge features. Software-defined vehicles offer a particularly rich opportunity in the smart device ecosystem, as they provide access to a variety of sensors and anonymized data.
Of course, it’s a given that safety and security are a primary concern in the development of software-defined vehicles, as critical safety priorities demand high level cybersecurity protections and safety certification. The partnership between Red Hat and General Motors aims to ease the complex vehicle update process through implementing continuous functional-safety certification into Ultifi. This highlight of their collaboration should make it easier to standardize new software development and create a more scalable design process.
Software-defined vehicles should receive a valuable jumpstart from this emerging partnership between industry-leading open source and automotive institutions. Open source innovation stands to benefit consumers and the automotive industry as a whole by enabling a host of potential cloud-based services and accelerating the development process for new features that will redefine the driving experience.
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