Electric Vehicles
Toyota Should Join Honda-Nissan Software Alliance, Academic Says
- Teaming up on operating systems key to take on foreign rivals
- Japan has set goal of 30% of software-defined vehicle market
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Honda Motor Co. and Nissan Motor Co. agreed to collaborate on the development of in-vehicle software last week, and at least one academic says the duo should be joined by heavyweight Toyota Motor Corp. in order to better compete with foreign rivals.
“Only two or three operating system makers for cars will survive — globally,” said Hiroaki Takada, an information science professor at Nagoya University, who also chaired the Japanese government’s committee on software-defined vehicles.