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Friday, June 11, 2010

Software Cost in Cars

Even our locomotion is getting more complex:
How much does software add to the cost of today's vehicles? How about tomorrow's electric cars?
by Sebastian Blanco

Back in 2005, the Center for Automotive Research, with help from other groups, conducted a study that predicted that electronics and software would make up almost 40 percent of a car's total value by 2010 (PDF). Yesterday, IBM used this number in a press release when discussing the way that the computer company wants to work to simplify the millions of lines of code and the way all the electronic systems in a car work together ... '

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