In short - both, depending on the clients :)
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First - as "edge components" get smarter - you still have small microcontrollers all over the car (for example - you need a local MCU and a complex PCB for running a headlight with dozens of LEDs with minimum wiring to a central command unit);
Secondly - you now have multi-core, multi-arhitecture controllers - and you need small OSs for some of these cores in order to run embedded apps efficiently.
Yes, our OS is based on TockOS, and our CEO (Alexandru Radovici) is #7 in the contributors list (https://github.com/tock/tock/graphs/contributors), with other colleagues contributing in the past years. Of course, we also push anything that we fix / that is useful for the general Tockos community upstream.