A new push toward standardizing the software guts of tomorrow’s cars is taking shape as Eclipse S-CORE hits version 0.5-alpha—an early but important milestone in building a common foundation for safety-critical vehicle software. The open-source project, developed under the Eclipse Software Defined Vehicle Working Group, aims to reshape how automakers build the brains of software-defined vehicles (SDVs). And one company, Qorix, is emerging as a key force behind the effort.