Comment on Electric Cars Are Already Upending America | After years of promise, a massive shift is under way
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 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.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’d rather have a real-time OS than android managing my car.
cbarrick@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The car’s CAN bus is always driven by a highly available real-time OS.
The car’s infotainment is often either in-house or Android-based.
Android (and to some extent Linux in general) is not suitable for hard real-time applications.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Exactly. The person I was replying to is overstating things, and giving too much credit to Android.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You don’t know how computers work.
Holyginz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
…I’m hoping you aren’t being serious here.
NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 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
paraphrand@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That was my point.