Until recently, the automotive industry was primarily focused on design, development of electronics and mechanics, and manufacturing. Nowadays the software component of new vehicles has become a large portion of the development cost, driven by adding numerous new sensors, intelligent algorithms, very powerful and specialized processors and a highly complex user experience to the vehicle. In this article a high-level overview of vehicle development is provided, followed by a deep dive in the different software development processes, languages and tools that are required for efficient development of the next generation of intelligent vehicles.
