On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Paul G. Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doug LaRue wrote: > > > ** Reply to message from Druppy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 > 08:34:29 > > -0700 > > > > > > > The entire car is run off of this system so replacing > > > the underlying OS would likely cause huge issues with other > > > modules that would need replaced as well. > > > > > > > I have a difficult time believing all kinds of hardware would have to be > > replaced because the OS was replaces. All the nodes are probably > > devices on a CAN bus and since they were bringing many other > > models online with the new OS, it's a tough one to buy that it would > > require much if any hardware replacements. > > > > > > It would not surprise me at all after spending several years working on > after market computers for vehicles. Our biggest customer at QUAKE Global > was (and it still is their biggest customer) Volvo Trucks. The automotive > industry is not that inclined as to make everything PnP. Nearly everything > is proprietary and one module is generally locked into how the module(s) it > communicates with operates. Change one thing, and there's a good chance > everything else on the bus has to be changed. They are not all CAN bus > either, there's J1708, OBD II, etc. >
I hereby call for an open source car ;-) -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
