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.

  • cbarrick@lemmy.world
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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.