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Plug-and-Play for Automobile Embedded Systems

Posted by michael on Friday October 10, 2003 @07:50AM from the ping-the-transmission dept.

wskellenger writes "This article in the EE Times describes Autosar, a consortium of German automakers and suppliers that aims to standardize vehicle software infrastructure. In this way, vehicle software can be used in different ECUs, reducing complexity and development time for OEMs and suppliers."

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All this homogeneity by pheared · 2003-10-10 07:58 · Score: 2, Funny

Can't wait for the first car worm.
1. Re:All this homogeneity by PD · 2003-10-10 08:29 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Just make a worm that will do one of two things when it detects that the vehicle is in the left lane:
  
  1) speed up, or
  2) swerve to the right
  
  That will fix the biggest problem on our expressways.
  
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  If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
Re:WinCE? by Jason1729 · 2003-10-10 08:02 · Score: 2, Funny

Reading the article, I just kept thinking of the "if Microsoft made cars" joke.

Jason
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