Comments on: Japanese revved up for car software standard

Toyota, Honda, Nissan and others on board with Japanese government to develop a standard operating system for cars.

[lmasanti]

BSOD becoming a reality?

I hope they do not base the development on Windows/Vista.

Won't it be better to define a standard protocol for inter-car-
devices intercomunications?

[ambho]

huh?

well, this depends on what you mean by OS

If you mean OS as in something like windows or unix, as in a kernel that is distributing CPU cycles and controlling memory allocation, which I suspect this is, then yeah it's a good idea. Because as more gadgets become available third party manufacturers can more easily tap into a common API or whatnot.

Of course maybe the manufacturers want to as you say define protocols for communication. But I doubt that based on my limited understanding of automotive electronics. Are you talking about a line transmission protocol like I2C or USB? I would assume current auto devices that need to communicate a lot of data, already use some IEEE standards.

[RyleeROBERTS]

Longtime industry watchers, however, caution that enthusiasm for computerized cars sometimes outstrips what consumers actually want.
Autopartswarehouse dealer or car manufacturer should be careful on what the consumer really needs on their cars.

[RyleeROBERTS]

Longtime industry watchers, however, caution that enthusiasm for computerized cars sometimes outstrips what consumers actually want.
Autopartswarehouse dealer or car manufacturer should be careful on what the consumer really needs on their cars.