Welcome to the Daily 5 report for Wednesday, Aug. 13.
If you haven't had a chance to read our coverage focusing on software-defined vehicles, today's installment is a good place to catch up with links to the entire package.
Molly Boigon explains the counterintuitive sea change in how automakers are developing vehicle software. They're doing less.
Instead, they have embraced open-source development and refocused on platforms across brands and models, rather than on incremental changes to stacks powering different software domains, Boigon wrote.
"The complexity and the reality of this is hitting," Prashant Gulati, CEO of SDVerse, said in our story. "Quite a few companies are realizing that not everything can be done by themselves, especially for established automakers."
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In short, future vehicle software will come from an ecosystem of developers and problem solvers rather than a single automaker or tech company. Hence, we're seeing a de-emphasis on in-house software development across numerous automakers, Boigon's story says.
"You're actually starting to see a lot of attrition within OEM software engineering and program delivery organizations," said Alex Oyler, director of SBD Automotive, North America. "This is fundamentally a reality of the software-defined vehicle because one of its core promises is to reduce the cost to develop."
And this will mean more auto industry cooperation, flexibility and partnerships in software development.
It will be fascinating to see how all this plays out at the retail level in the coming years as car buyers choose vehicles that meet their technology needs.
In other news, JLR is recalling 121,509 Range Rover and Range Rover Sports in the U.S. because of potential cracks in front suspension upper knuckle joints, NHTSA said. JLR has received 96 claims and field reports regarding Range Rovers and 14 claims and field reports involving Range Rover Sports, NHTSA said.
Meanwhile, the Hyundai Santa Cruz pickup has joined the growing list of U.S.-made vehicles not being exported to Canada because of tariffs. Among other automaker adjustments, Mazda has temporarily stopped output of its U.S.-built CX-50 for Canada, while Nissan has paused production of its U.S.-built Pathfinder, Murano and Frontier as it waits out tariffs.
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— Philip Nussel, online editor
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