AUMOVIO showed a distributed brake-by-wire system and named a first Chinese order
The supplier said a major Chinese carmaker had placed a series order for a brake system that runs electronically from the pedal through to its fallback level.
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Vehicle software in Europe, where UNECE regulation reaches vehicles through EU type-approval law. Coverage follows R155 and R156 in practice, the horizontal digital regulations arriving on the same software layer, and the platform programs of European manufacturers and their suppliers.
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TRATON will build its truck software platform on Red Hat's in-vehicle operating system
The truck group said it plans to incorporate Red Hat's automotive Linux into TRATON ONE OS while keeping architecture, safety and regulatory responsibility itself.
Autoliv opened its crash-simulation human body model to the industry, Toyota first
The supplier made its Human Body Model Safety Suite available as a shared virtual-testing platform and said Toyota had begun using it to evaluate its capabilities.
ZF linked bus telematics to workshop diagnostics over a CAN tunnel
The supplier connected its bus fleet platform to its workshop diagnostic software so technicians can run a full diagnostic session on a vehicle before it arrives, and said the connection is open to rival tools.
Hella Gutmann built a workshop diagnostics AI on its own repair records only
The diagnostics arm of FORVIA HELLA launched macsNova, an assistant it said draws on the company's own repair history and no external data, as the intelligence layer of a new tester.
Smart Eye promoted its chief engineer to CTO and created a CIO role
The Gothenburg company moved the technology chief who had held the post since 2009 into a newly created information role and reorganized its senior team around two new positions.
Einride disclosed a haulier acquisition, with a price, only in its SEC filing
A Form 6-K set out the terms of a Swedish carrier purchase that closed on September 1 and that the company has not announced through its own newsroom.
Wayve and Uber began supervised autonomous rides in London
Uber passengers in London can now be matched with a car driven by Wayve's software, with a licensed driver on board to oversee the trip, in the first autonomous ride-hailing service offered in the United Kingdom.
Knorr-Bremse put an ISO 24089-certified software update system into series production
The brake supplier said its update-management system is certified to ISO 24089 and already in series production, and that it is adding an open, manufacturer-independent update hub built with Cojali.
Volkswagen will concentrate platforms, architectures and software into two hemispheres
The group's supervisory board approved a plan that harmonizes platforms, electronic architectures, driver assistance and software into one set for the Western hemisphere and one for the Eastern.
Euro NCAP marks down screen-only driving controls in second 2026-protocol batch
The rating body published results for four models on September 2, scoring assisted-driving software, driver monitoring and the design of cabin controls alongside crash performance.
ZF sets out its software-defined truck roadmap around updates, diagnostics and a data link
The supplier named secure software update management, vehicle diagnostics and a high-speed truck-trailer connection among the building blocks on its path to the software-defined commercial vehicle.
Bosch details central vehicle computers and SOVD diagnostics for software-defined trucks
The supplier's IAA Transportation portfolio put cockpit and vehicle integration platforms, over-the-air-capable computers and an ETAS diagnostic stack built on ASAM SOVD at the center of its commercial-vehicle software case.
Volvo Cars will close the Stockholm office it opened for software and AI work
Around 450 employees are based at the site, which the carmaker said it established to reach critical talent during its transformation and which will close on March 1, 2027.
BMW made its new active-safety suite standard on a single central driving computer
BMW Group said every new active safety, automated driving and parking function arriving with the Neue Klasse runs on one water-cooled computer carrying roughly 20 times the processing power of the outgoing system.
Smart Eye's automotive revenue more than doubled as the EU driver-monitoring rule bit
The Swedish driver-monitoring supplier reported 128 percent organic growth in its automotive business, with royalty revenue from cars already in production up more than 200 percent in the quarter.
Porsche sold its IT consultancy MHP to TCS and signed a five-year AI partnership
Porsche agreed to sell the 4,500-person management and IT consultancy MHP to Tata Consultancy Services, and signed a five-year deal under which TCS will run a dedicated AI center for the carmaker.
Schaeffler took the software and safety scope in a battery-management deal with CATL
The two signed a memorandum of understanding on battery management systems and integrated power electronics for European carmakers, with Schaeffler owning software, functional safety and validation.
Volvo Cars named Alexander Petrofski CTO and gave Anders Bell a platform role
The outgoing technology chief will lead a newly formed initiative defining how to scale the company's platform and digital technology, reporting to the chief executive.
Einride will put 500 Tesla Semis on its own platform as it reports a first half
The Swedish company said it will run 500 trucks built by another manufacturer through Saga AI, on the same morning its first results as a listed company disclosed driverless hours and planned distance.
UK consults on mandating UN R171 driver assistance in GB type approval
A six-week Department for Transport consultation would write the UN regulation on driver control assistance, the widened automated lane keeping rules and the EU's new secure-diagnostics conditions into the British approval scheme.
Teradar opened a German subsidiary to take terahertz sensing to European carmakers
The US sensing startup established Teradar GmbH in Wiesbaden as its European headquarters, and named updates to European regulation as the condition for vehicle integration from 2028.
Qualcomm credited its driving stack in the BMW iX3's five-star Euro NCAP rating
Six weeks after Euro NCAP published the result, Qualcomm said the assistance stack it co-developed with BMW contributed to two of the four stages the 2026 protocol scores.
Mercedes-Benz put MB.OS and full-vehicle over-the-air updates into the new C-Class
The combustion sedan and estate run MB.OS as their central software platform, extending the operating system across the whole model family after the electric C-Class launched on it in April.
Mercedes-Benz confirmed software chief Magnus Östberg is leaving after five years
The executive who held overall responsibility for the MB.OS operating system is going for personal reasons, and no successor has been named.
Smart Eye won a second mirror-integrated driver and occupant monitoring program
The Gothenburg company said a major European automaker had selected its combined driver and occupant monitoring software for three models, moving the camera into the rear-view mirror.
Volvo Cars puts a driving score in the car and ties it to a Volvia insurance offer
The optional Safety Coach app scores braking, acceleration and cornering on the infotainment screen, and drivers in Sweden and Norway who choose to share the data can take a usage-based offer from the insurer Volvia.
Einride will put its Level 4 driver software into DAF's electric trucks from 2027
The two companies opened a joint program to integrate Einride's autonomous driving system into DAF's electric truck platform, with Dutch research institute TNO working on the interfaces and on type-approval compliance.
UK funds nine automated-driving projects, from brake-by-wire to simulation at scale
Britain's CAM Pathfinder awards went to fail-operational braking, photorealistic simulation and a bus service moving from Level 3 to Level 4.
Infineon credits software-defined vehicles for automotive growth, EV power still subdued
The chipmaker's third-quarter results, published August 5, put its Automotive segment at €1,932 million and attributed the increase to parts sold into software-defined vehicles.
EU calendar sets Cyber Resilience Act vulnerability reporting to start September 11
A European Commission factsheet published August 3 confirmed that reporting duties for actively exploited vulnerabilities and severe incidents begin on September 11, with part of the Data Act following a day later.
Volkswagen's Cariad converts its Horizon Robotics loan into a 9.9 percent stake
Volkswagen's software subsidiary closed a debt-to-equity conversion on August 3, turning a 2023 loan to the Chinese driver-assistance chip designer into a near-10 percent shareholding.
Aumovio and BMW expand brake and electronics partnership past €1 billion
Continental's former automotive unit extends MK C2 integrated brake deliveries to the mid-2030s and settles past warranty disputes with a €350 million payment.
Qualcomm named BMW Group's lead compute silicon provider through the next decade
BMW will build its next-generation digital cockpit and automated-driving systems on Qualcomm's Snapdragon platforms under a decade-spanning agreement.
Volkswagen's Cariad deepens Horizon Robotics tie-up for Level 3 driving in China
The Cariad-controlled joint venture Carizon gains white-box access to Horizon Robotics' AI foundation model, with conditional Level 3 deliveries targeted for late 2027.
Volvo rolls out Apple Music to more than two million cars over the air
A global OTA update adds native Apple Music integration to Volvo models back to model year 2020, with Spatial Audio on the newest cars.