The Rise of Linux In In-Vehicle Infotainment

DeviceGuru writes "The 2014 Toyota Lexus IS reportedly will be the second major automobile to offer in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems based on Linux, following last year's introduction of the Debian-based Cadillac User Experience (CUE) IVI system, which now appears in Cadillac's XTS and SRX models. Cadillac's CUE IVI implementation was developed by GENIVI Alliance members MontaVista and Bosch and uses similar code, but is not listed as GENIVI compliant. Meanwhile, ABI Research projects that Linux will grow to 20 percent IVI market share by 2018, behind Microsoft and market leader QNX."

Comments

QNX FTW

[TechyImmigrant]

Linux, after all these years on Android, with every faster CPUs, still suffers from uncontrolled pauses and interruptions in user interaction that clearly are to do with scheduling and not to do with the available CPU resources.

This is because its scheduling tries to serve all purposes from database servers to desktop games. This is why it is unsuited for a car UI. QNX is fine.

Re:QNX FTW

[Desler]

Or just use a better OS that doesn't require endless tweaking to be usable?

It's been done for 100 years

[dutchwhizzman]

Really, if you need a machine to keep your kids busy or get them educated, you're doing it wrong. People have been raising kids and keeping them well behaved during journeys for way longer than we have had kids travelling in cars. Even that has been done for 100 years. 30 years ago, it was not uncommon for kids to have to listen to a crummy radio with maybe a tape, but probably a radio station on if anything at all. Maybe you should start raising your kids, instead of depending on machines to do it for you.