We once had to make an interface for a big German car manufacturers new car. It showed texts about things and stuff (I really don’t remember). The target was an embedded browser for which a not really accurate emulator existed.
I could only develop against that emulator. They could not supply us with a computer running the real thing. For testing I had to go to a secret locked garage where the real car stood with obfuscation decals so that competitors wouldn’t be able to see the design. It was really tight and uncomfortable to work in when I had to debug something only occuring on the real hardware. And I was lucky that I had cellphone reception at all in the garage.
One or two years later after I had left that team I saw a colleague finally having basically a full car’s cockpit in his office for testing, so things got a little bit better.
My point is, car companies work differently than computer guys. I hope this project won’t die amid their inflexibility.
The core principle is to move away from proprietary software in the automotive sector, which is currently mainly developed by US companies.
I am somewhat suspicious that managers think this means that somebody will develop the software for free.
Sound ridiculous but exactly this is what the industry is expecting from the real-time Linux project.
With full access to diagnostic data too right?
Well yeah, for $100/mo
FOSS cars when?
Sono Sion looked promising but couldn’t get enough funding
With FOSSIL as VCS!
You wouldn’t steal a car
But then how will they hide the emissions cheating?
Batteries!
Let’s see if they can do that before collapsing. The past decades they’ve failed to innovate and keep up. The only decent cars were utterly overpriced. If they want to survive they’ll have to make good EVs for a lot cheaper. Otherwise China will take over that market. And I am hoping no government will try to tarif Chinese EVs just to prevent people from getting easy access to them.
Plus there was the whole lying about emissions and doubling down when called out thing.
Ehm is everyone forgetting that the Chinese ev makers pay their employees a tenth of what a German car maker would? On top of that they’re getting incredible amount of subsidising from the government? The scope is the collapse of any manufacturer outside of China by flooding with most affordable cars and then use the monopoly to gain back the losses.
It’s the fault of German (and other) manufacturers for putting any subsidies into their own pockets than using them to offer their cars for a lower price.
China is paying lower wages because of the difference between currency value.
I’ll believe it when i see it
Yay real cars will exist again after 2030. Proprietary garbage is a rental you never own when someone else controls it.
2030: year of the FOSS car.
how about they create a car with buttons instead of a screen
GenIVI already tried.
Didn’t Mercedes just start installing Windoze Meetings in their cars?
Just manufacture a few dozen million VW frames again
Some sort of commons, but for cars, you say? I am sorry, but history shows that this tragically never works.
