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From SDV to AIDV: Where Agentic AI Works in Automotive Today

Mariestella Colón Astacio, Director | Creative & Media
July 24, 2026
Agentic AISDVAutomotive Strategy

Everyone in automotive is suddenly using the term AI-defined vehicle, and most of the people using it mean different things. A field guide to what the term means, where agentic AI is producing measurable results, and where it is still a slide in a vendor deck.

From SDV to AIDV: Where Agentic AI Works in Automotive Today

A software-defined vehicle and an AI-defined vehicle sound like the same idea wearing different jackets. They describe different levels of maturity, and confusing them is where a lot of AI budgets go wrong.

The interactive below walks through the one-word difference between SDV and AIDV, where the money is moving, the four use cases producing measurable results in production today, and a three-tier ladder for granting autonomy without becoming a Gartner cancellation statistic.

Interactive tool: From SDV to AIDV
Interactive. Flip between SDV and AIDV, explore the market charts, open each production use case, and step through the autonomy tiers.
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George Ayres, Denise Barfuss, Chip Goetzinger, and Allen Levenson of AutoMobility Advisors at MOVE America.