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@lemmy.world
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    10 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.

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        10 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.

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          10 months ago

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

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        10 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