Prepare for Autonomy-as-a-Service

While car ownership is growing in Asia and South America, the market is aging in Europe. Growth is slowing down, year on year, and expected to enter decline by 2025. Fewer younger people are driving compared their parents’ generation and cities have taken positive steps to make car-free living more attractive. We have arrived in the era of Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS), where individuals, families or businesses pay a subscription that incorporates several complementary modes of transport. The profit of tomorrow will therefore come from the usage of a vehicle, rather than the vehicle itself. This presents a new challenge to OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers, who are rapidly investing in the wider ecosystem of MaaS, such as software to manage fleets of vehicles or EV charging points. The natural next step is Autonomy-as-a-Service (AaaS), especially if people lose the skills or confidence to drive themselves. This evolution is already gathering pace, with the first robotaxis expected to go live in 2025.

As systems experts, Expleo helps to create new mobility services, for any market in the world, by assessing the constraints, environment and likely scenarios. We guide clients on the right vehicles, architecture or software framework to gain the highest return. We can also assist with the operations and maintenance of a service – an evolution of the product lifecycle management (PLM) we offer our clients today. Ensuring the app software and operating system remain high performant is critical for boosting the customer experience and therefore customer retention, in what will prove an extremely competitive marketplace. 

Get the full story in our whitepaper: Assisted, automated, autonomous: driving autonomy to the next level