Parallel Computer Technology - A Solution for Automobiles?

This paper gives a short overview of the information technology in today´s car electronics and software components, with main focus on the dramatically increasing intra-car-communication and the accumulative number of electronic control units due to the complexity of current new applications, e.g., the very new semi-autonomous car driving. It is shown how the car industry can learn from parallel computing technologies for succeeding their new upcoming challenges in the close future.