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Hyundai Joins the Linux Foundation To Embrace AGL's Open Source Connected Car Tech (venturebeat.com)
Hyundai has become the latest car company to explore serious open source alternatives for developing its in-car services. From a report: Ahead of CES 2019, the South Korean automotive giant today announced that it has joined the Linux Foundation and the nonprofit's seven-year-old Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) effort as it looks to contribute to -- and reap benefit from -- software developed by over 140 companies. For Hyundai, open collaboration is crucial as it pursues a "connected car vision," Paul Choo, VP and head of Infotainment Technology Center at Hyundai, said in a statement. Car companies have traditionally taken three years or longer to develop in-vehicle services, such as infotainment systems. The bottleneck usually lies in the quality of code their in-house programmers create. According to a case study published by AGL, a connected car uses some 100 million lines of code, which is about 11 times more than the number that went into the F-35 fighter jet. Getting on AGL's bandwagon would also help Hyundai speed up development of its in-car technologies.
I sure want Linux on my Hyundai.
The corporations now own you, and it shows.
For paying developers working on large projects, also for paying standards bodies for developing IPC or protocols that the developers both supplant and work with.
Will not buy any Hyundai as those cars just don't last...same for Kia or whatever is called now.... replaced 3 manual trany when I was younger in the damn Hyundai Excel, thanks but not thanks.
You seem to be embarking on a red herring or a straw man.
I am curious what man page on changing a tire would look like and if there a chance it will have less than a dozen of listed args.
I disagree: Hyundai Tiburon GT V-6 2006 (black) owner here (great car, VERY fast) std. shift/manual 5 speed, 38k miles only in that timeframe, regular 15k synthetic oil (refreshed every 7k miles), still runs great (just did the rear brakes a couple weeks back, only 2nd time in my ownership).
* In my experience, it's how you TAKE CARE of your vehicles more than quality of workmanship!
Sure, yes, it's both, but I am finding this car's really well made & apparently considered a 'sportscar' as I've seen it in "Grand Theft Auto" type games as a car one can use for playing it (astounding to me, as I know it's NOT "SuperCar" class, like my fav. one is (Koenigsegg, originally using the FINEST piece of automotive engineering genius from a GENIUS in Carroll Shelby iirc, in the Mustang 5.0 motorblock modified).
(I wanted a Mustang until I saw the "gas guzzler" V-8 tax on it & insurance that was OUTTA THIS WORLD large (even though I have a SPOTLESS DRIVING RECORD for 30++ yrs. or so now & am WAY over 27 yr. old male 1st discount on cost etc.)).
APK
P.S.=> Anyhow - maybe I'm an "outlier on the curve" (per calculus & integrals (area under curve) better yet derivatives (optimal solutions ON curve iirc) OR linear optimization solutions seeking) but for me? It's been one HELL of a GOOD, fast, enduring car - kids in my area keep approaching me to SELL it to them (bah, in MY day? Fast cars/hotrods were V-8 & I had a Chevelle SS))... apk
It stopped being cool when Google used it for Android. Now it's just part of a spyware empire.
Apple got an amazing operating system when they bought NeXT. Now, it's a crappy walled garden where you have to play according to Apple's self-serving rules.
Same thing goes for Linux. The "maintainers" have grown old, crotchety, slow, and self-serving, having more of an eye on their retirement rather than on creating a work of art that will stand the test of time.
Popularity results in 2 phenomena: A deluge of money, and an influx of bums who shit and piss all over anything that was once beautiful.
officially start the Year Of Linux :)
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
Why do cars still come with built in displays? Provide a magnetic dock and charging for a standardized phone or tablet on the console and connect via blue tooth. You phone loads an manufacturer provided app, or one built using open sourced libraries to car functions.
Modern cars are increasingly complex things with many subsystems, network connectivity, over the air updates, telematics, driver assistance, HUDs, entertainment systems, message buses etc. Not only must they worry about software faults during normal operation of the car, but also malicious attacks - people trying to unlock a car, or even take control of it. There may even be separate hardware for the human machine interface from the rest of the car and they must still communicate securely.
Therefore it makes sense that manufacturers pool their resources and try to come up with a security model and framework that hardens vehicle to attack and offers a stable platform to build up a user experience.
What the heck. If editors are now submitting and linking to their own articles, then Slashdot is finished.
The bottleneck usually lies in the quality of code their in-house programmers create.
I'm shocked, shocked! to hear this.
Hey, Windows users, there is no such thing as "forward" slash, there is only slash and backslash.
The aviation industry has been doing this for many decades and no doubt have pre-built solutions that could be adopted.
The medical equipment industry has similar software.
It's a matter of obtaining the intellectual property for the real-time OSs and such. The apps would be different but the underlying real-time kernel could be the same. The value of well-debugged real-time software would be high. But would management recognize that?
The old question, build or buy?
I18N == Intergalacticization