Age of the Smart Car
As you pull into a highway to your favorite vacation destination of 200 miles away the city, you can put your car in cruise control so you can rest your back. Automatically sets the speed to 120 mph and you can now remove your foot off the accelerator pedal. The seats recline and the AC adapter becomes silent. The soft suspension to become a smoother ride and the steering wheel moves up by 30 cm to give more legroom. The car’s Bluetooth set your phone to silent and car moves the photo chromatic windows turn darker. The radio will switch to soft background music. The next 2 hours for your holiday will be nothing less than business class travel with major airlines.
And all of that wasn’t a movie! Welcome to the world of smart cars. KPIT Cummins in the brain are working with Automotive OEMs and innovation to build on such vehicles. Research shows that in 2010, an average car will have 100 million lines of code, ECU 50, and software that represent 13% of the cost of the car. At the same time, electronics are 35% of the cost of the car. Rapidly changing market dynamics are driving the OEM and Tier 1 providers to reduce time to market your product and simplifying product design, development and deployment in the market and provide more reliable vehicles. This includes not only the mechanical parts of the car, but also electronic - or the ‘brains’ of the car. Each function and each function must be purchased from the designer at the head of the assembly line. Also with high reliability. If not here, could cost lives.