India, Nov. 22 -- Advanced technologies are making us all more competitive. Today, we are hearing, and even seeing connected cars. Automotive electrification today drives the use of design IP. Future mobility is getting enabled by sensorization. Also, there is software innovation driving automobiles. There are many such trends happening.

Here, Anup Sable, CTO at KPIT Technologies, tells us more. Excerpts from an interview:

DQ: How has the experience of software innovation been with automobiles?

Anup Sable: Traditionally, automobiles have been mechanical. Over the past 40 years or so, we have seen the gradual introduction of software and electronics technologies that have enabled new features and functions e.g., power windows, antilock ...