Thanks for sharing. I went to a session at OSCON last week about "open
cars." Not much to report other than they are not quite open source yet,
but are gearing up to release their SDK. They are basically looking to
standardize the in-car entertainment and data systems. I've added my
notes below, which may or may not make that much sense. I'm hoping to
follow-up with the presenters in a story on opensoure.com.
Jason
Open Source Automotive Development, Jeff Payne (OpenCar, Inc.), Sam
Skjonsberg (OpenCar, Inc.)
The car is becoming a personal mobile command center, but drivers can’t
let go of their devices. The automobile industry is moving forward with
creating proprietary software for device sensors, onboard entertainment,
controls, and host services. There is a need to create an ecosystem
around these unique attributes in the auto industry “It will be a long
time before there are open standards for all of this” said Jeff Payne,
OpenCar Inc. But where does the user experience meet automotive safety?
There is a long list of safety standards and OpenCar has developed a set
of safety principles for their project. Some of the items in this list
include: not distracting or visually entertaining the driver, ensuring
all text and icons are legible, and maintaining ample contrast in all
lighting situations. We’re beginning to see the emergence of the the
“car as a platform” and the outstanding question is, will this platform
be open or not?
* Drivers can’t let go of their device. 1.1 million distraction-related
injuries.
* Developer motivation: develop interest, choice, consumer interest,
large addressable market
* Seeing an entire industry, big industry really transitioning.
* Need to create an ecosystem. Unique attributes: device sensors,
onboard entertainment, control, host services, host platform differences
* published APIs for automakers proprietary software
* lock-in developers to a single OEM brand (W3C has not come forward
but they have telematics data)
* It will be a long time before there are open standards for all of this
[auto industry]
* The car as a platform: CAN, Lin buses, OBD!!, other feeds: GPS,
telephony, etc.
* HTML5 in cars: embedded browser in IVI, eg WebKit
* Safety principles: do not distract or visually entertain the driver,
complete tasks in short seq. glances, all text and icon are legible,
ample contrast in all lighting situations, interaction sequences are
interruptable and resumable, interaction pace is controlled by the
driver, system feedback is timely and clear, drive does not need to keep
eyes on display
On 07/25/2013 05:02 AM, Jeremiah Foster wrote:
More at this link:
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/blogs/browse/2013/07/linux-fuels-automotive-innovation-call-automotive-linux-summit
Cheers,
Jeremiah
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