Introduction With the rapid increase in software components and lines of code that go into modern automotive systems, there is a corresponding rise in the risk of introducing critical bugs. [...]

People love to own cars. We give them names, write songs about them, and parade them slowly and lovingly through the center of town. We devote endless hours to polishing, tinkering, repairing [...]

More and more automakers are putting modems in their vehicles to essentially turn the car into a smartphone on wheels. An embedded modem is “always on” even when the car [...]

Our two-part blog post published at the end of 2017 explored the Amazon Alexa APIs and their applicability for in-vehicle use. At CES 2018, Amazon announced Alexa extensions specifically for [...]

Introduction The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas has become one of the biggest and most influential trade shows in the world. Companies of all sizes from across [...]

Introduction This blog describes a high-level approach to securing and authenticating the connection link between in-vehicle systems and smartphone applications. A secure link is needed in cases such as vehicle [...]

Introduction This two-part blog post explores the Amazon Alexa APIs and their applicability for in-vehicle use.Part I of the series  provided an overview of Alexa and its current uses in [...]

Introduction This two-part blog post will explore Amazon Alexa APIs and their applicability for in-vehicle use.Amazon’s virtual assistant Alexa is currently the dominant voice recognition technology for in-home devices. Thanks [...]

Introduction An earlier post about over the air updates via the smartphone discussed the need for in-vehicle systems to open a secure connection to the cloud, via the smartphone, to [...]

Introduction Like virtually every other industry in the world, the automotive sector has been profoundly affected by the explosion of smart devices. Today, smartphones let millions of people enjoy the [...]