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

• cbarrick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• cyberpunk007@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You don’t know how computers work.

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• Holyginz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  …I’m hoping you aren’t being serious here.

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• NotSteve_@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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  • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That was my point.

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