Linux for Cars
Dashboard display shows Linus Torvalds giving you the finger each time you start the car.
The Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) project is about to unleash the second version of its unified code base - snappily called UCB 2.0 - with expanded hardware support. For the participating car-makers and hardware vendors it's a big deal. Features landing in the latest distribution include support for a rear seat display with …
Dashboard display shows Linus Torvalds giving you the finger each time you start the car.
Actually, my first thought was that calling your main body of code "UCB" immediately invites confusion with the very origins of BSD. To the point it sets alarm bells ringing - if you're ignorant of that what else don't you know?
Oh wait, this is a new Linux distro, so self-promotion and being "cool" are more important than anything else.
Nah, it'll (almost) always start ...
But you will never know whether it'll let you get in before it drives off. That, and if you don't wear the same clothes every day, you'll find all the devices like steering wheel and gearstick keep moving around - wear the wrong jacket and your passenger will have to steer from the back seat.
Problem wil be stopping it, every time you stop the engine the supervisor will think it's stalled and helpfully restart it for you.
From wheel release candidate v0. 99 to 1.00.
New experimental multi-piston features with up to 64 supported pistons,replaces single piston support.
Audi indicator support added, arrow on dashboard flashes but external indicators do not.
BMW mode upgraded to sorry mate I didn't see you v2. 03.
Sales rep tailgate mode, distance reduced before auto braking from 3 foot to 6 inches.
It'll probably be like android. So customised by each manufacturer that they will be the only source of updates.
Sorry sir, your two year old car is no longer supported, it's not our fault you bought an end-of-life model, if you want those vital security and safety updates you'll have to buy a new car.
<q>As in Toyota, or as in Yugo?</q>
You got something against Yugo, or are you still unaware of the Toyota "uncommanded acceleration" stories in the USA (and resulting court cases and multi-billion $ penalties, not to mention deaths) in recent years?
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1319903 25 Oct 2013
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1319966 31 Oct 2013
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1321734 1 Apr 2014
https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/pubs/koopman14_toyota_ua_slides.pdf 28 Sep 2014, Prof Phil Koopman (expert witness at the Toyota trial)
It is clear that if you build a system complex enough that it could utilise an operating system then Linux is the best choice.
Knowing that every appliance runs the same operating system has the potential to make them extensible.
Not sure I want to have to worry about Kettle and Fridge updates but our TV's already present this problem.