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  • Ghostalmedia
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    8611 months ago

    It kind of annoys me when people say that expanded infotainment and self driving tech is an EV thing. It’s not.

    LOTS of internal combustion cars are basically a rolling Android computer with OTA firmware updates. It’s been this way for quite a while now.

    • paraphrand
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      -811 months ago

      I’d rather have a real-time OS than android managing my car.

      • @cbarrick
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        11 months ago

        The car’s CAN bus is always driven by a highly available real-time OS.

        The car’s infotainment is often Android-based.

        Android (and to some extent Linux in general) is not suitable for hard real-time applications.

        • paraphrand
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          Exactly. The person I was replying to is overstating things, and giving too much credit to Android. Misrepresenting.

      • @cyberpunk007
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        211 months ago

        You don’t know how computers work.

      • @Holyginz
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        111 months ago

        …I’m hoping you aren’t being serious here.

      • @[email protected]
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        111 months ago

        I don’t really know much about cars but isn’t QNX already powering a lot of cars? I assume if Android’s powering anything, it’s just the entertainment system