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that everyone can embrace. If you are too
tech-centric, you'll lose Detroit. If you get
too deep in the automotive weeds, the
Silicon Valley folks will tune out.
The concept of the software-defined car
was a way to blend these two world views.
It helped the carmakers see that their
product was becoming the supercomputer
on wheels I mentioned earlier, which had
an effect on their design and purchasing
decisions. The concept also helped focus
their attention on the central importance
of software security and the need to build
it into the product from the beginning-
as a networking or telecom company in
Silicon Valley would-rather than layer it
on after the fact.
Conversely, our Silicon Valley engineers
needed to adopt the mindset of Detroit.
Just as the carmakers came to understand
the importance of software security,
the engineers needed to appreciate
something that is part of carmakers'
DNA-automotive safety. You can't simply
say to a car buyer, "Here's your car, it's
connected to the Internet and it does all
these cool things." If you don't continue to
monitor software security, you won't be
able to keep a step ahead of hackers and
other threats.
The networking types in Silicon Valley
don't typically deal with software reliability
and security that is a matter of life
and death. They are likely to approach
automotive development the way they
do, say, mobile app development. While
some Silicon Valley techies might think
of the modern cars as a "mobile phone
on wheels," this omits a key difference
between regular apps and vehicle
software. If a banking app goes down,

jUST AS THE
CARMAKERS CAME
TO UNDERSTAND
THE IMPORTANCE
OF SOFTwARE
SECURITY, THE
ENGINEERS NEEDED
TO APPRECIATE
SOMETHING
THAT IS PART OF
CARMAKERS' DNA
- AUTOMOTIVE
SAFETY.
people may get angry and revenue may be
lost-but no one dies.
When people's lives are at stake, safety
and security move to the front of the
line for engineers. For example, once
our developers started pondering the
software-connected car, they began
thinking like Detroit when it develops a
brake system. They not only had to design
an effective product, they also had to be as
close to 100% safe and secure as possible.
If you're developing the software for an
autonomous car, you need that system to
stop when it encounters a living thing in
its path, every single time. Silicon Valley

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