Software Defined Vehicles (SDVs) represent a paradigm shift in the automotive industry, where vehicles are increasingly controlled and managed through software, while relying less on mechanical and hardware components. While this allows considerable flexibility in the introduction of new “smart” features and fast tracks innovations in multiple domains, it also creates new challenges and opportunities in architecture design, control, and security. By adopting modular architectures, adaptive control strategies, and robust security measures, SDVs can pave the way for a safer and more efficient future of transportation. In this paper, we cover perspectives from both, industry and academia, in this area. They provide embedded systems researchers an overview of recent developments and emerging challenges in SDV from the perspective of architecture design, control, and security. The emerging challenges also set the foundations for future research in this domain.