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Automotive: the great face-to-face between manufacturers and Gafa

2021-03-07T22:58:36.533Z


DECRYPTION - There are many collaborations, but manufacturers want to keep control over software and protect their brands.


Under the hood of the cars of tomorrow, an electric battery, sensors, an operating system, software ... but also a body, a chassis, wheels ... High-tech machines far removed from the mechanical devices put on the roads during decades.

Some see it as computers on wheels… Obviously, the programmed marriage between mechanics and software will reshuffle the cards in the industry.

Will these cars be stamped Microsoft, Apple or Google, these leading tech stars in the operating systems and software of connected vehicles of the next generations?

Or will Volkswagen, Toyota and General Motors and the other auto giants succeed in retaining control by limiting the power of these strategic partners?

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Announcements of global alliances between car manufacturers and Gafams have followed one another in recent months.

At the beginning of February, Volkswagen and Microsoft, who have been cooperating since 2018 to set up

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Source: lefigaro

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