Electric Cars Are Already Upending America | After years of promise, a massive shift is under way::After years of promise, a massive shift is under way.

  • Ghostalmedia
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    886 months ago

    It kind of annoys me when people say that expanded infotainment and self driving tech is an EV thing. It’s not.

    LOTS of internal combustion cars are basically a rolling Android computer with OTA firmware updates. It’s been this way for quite a while now.

    • paraphrand
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      86 months ago

      I’d rather have a real-time OS than android managing my car.

      • @cbarrick@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        The car’s CAN bus is always driven by a highly available real-time OS.

        The car’s infotainment is often Android-based.

        Android (and to some extent Linux in general) is not suitable for hard real-time applications.

        • paraphrand
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          6 months ago

          Exactly. The person I was replying to is overstating things, and giving too much credit to Android. Misrepresenting.

      • @NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
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        16 months ago

        I don’t really know much about cars but isn’t QNX already powering a lot of cars? I assume if Android’s powering anything, it’s just the entertainment system