Business | Changing the wheels

The race to reinvent the car industry

Can carmakers catch up with Tesla and pull off the shift to software?

|Berlin and Paris

After a day’s work, you are not quite ready to go home. Perhaps you fancy catching a film. You could head to the cinema. Instead, you retreat into your car. A few taps on the touchscreen dashboard and the vehicle turns into a multimedia cocoon. Light trickles down the interior surfaces like a waterfall. Speakers ooze surround-sound. Augmented-reality glasses make a screen appear in front of your eyes.

This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Reinventing the wheels”

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