Ford Dumping Windows For QNX In New Vehicles

innocent_white_lamb writes "Ford has announced that their in-vehicle technology called Sync will be based on Blackberry's QNX operating system and will no longer use Microsoft Windows. My own 2013 Ford Escape has the Windows-based Sync system. I wonder if they will issue an update to change it to QNX." Anonymous sources inside Ford cited reliability problems with Windows and lower licensing costs for the switch to the classic realtime OS.

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Re:Having used both

[mjwx]

They made the right decision. QNX is one of the more enjoyable embedded OSes (IMO YMMV of course).

Having rented a Ford Focus with the 4sp automatic "Sync by Microsoft" gearbox, if they had of punched themselves in the head until their eye fell out they still would have made the right choice.

The gearbox in a recent Focus can only be described as bone jarringly violent. Every time that thing changed gear the selector fork forcibly readjusted my spine whilst moving the cog.

Making a decent 4sp slushbox is so basic. even Great Wall and Tata can do it without screwing it up. The 4sp slushbox in recent Subaru Impreza is fine, why did Ford need to screw it up.

Even Ford's 6sp automatic in the Mustang was horrible. You'd click the plus button (stupidly placed on the gear knob, FFS even a Hyundai has flappy paddles this day and age) and you could go away and make a cup of tea before it realised it was a gearbox and moved a cog. I've never driven an automatic Ford I could call decent, even the much hyped ZF box in the Falcon (Australia only model) was a horror.