This year’s IAA Mobility transportation industry trade show in Munich, Germany, was billed as a tour de force of Chinese automakers by the German press. Attendees wondered out loud if Volkswagen Group, Mercedes-Benz and BMW Group were going to be able to keep up with Geely, Xpeng and BYD.

One of the keys to those legacy automakers competing with the Chinese, Mike Nefkens, chief executive officer of HERE Technologies, told Newsweek is their ability to speed up production timelines. That’s where software-defined vehicles, known for characteristic connected technologies that are able to be updated via cloud-based communication, come into play.

“I think people are realizing that software defined vehicles are much more complex than they thought. You know, many companies have put together

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