Marty Mcfly was supposed to have gone to
the year 2012 and seen flying cars. It’s 2012, and we’re just now
talking about an open-source OS running the apps in our GPS-signal
locked driverless vehicles. Does something smell bad here or is it just
me?
Jaguar Land Rover, Nissan and Toyota are among the early adopters of something called the Automotive Grade Linux Workgroup. The Linux Foundation has finally joined tech companies Harman, NEC, NVIDIA, and Texas Instruments, Samsung
and Intel. In case you’ve forgotten, Tizen is the platform backed by
the latter two companies and which will probably have a larger say, than
perhaps, Harman or NEC.
Why this foundation exists, is to make
car-apps, and create standards for implemented devices and services that
may run in the background. Imagine a vehicle, such as the ones
presented by Honda or Google.
All you’ve got to do is look at instrumentation clusters and watch
movies or check Twitter. As noted earlier, Tizen will be making a debut
in this brave new world: connectivity between Tizen
phones and Tizen-run devices in vehicles will be the priority for
Samsung and Intel. A Tizen phone you say? They haven’t surfaced yet, but
according to official sources, such a release will be seen sometime in
2013.
All this fancy tech may seem luxurious but, as the group has been quoted, “Carmakers can use Linux and open source technologies to accelerate innovation. A community distribution for automotive Linux is essential. There
are a core set of requirements specific to the automotive industry, and
collaborative development can help meet those needs faster and more
efficiently.“
It appears as if the wheels of progress are now almost a literal term!
What’s your take on driverless vehicles,
Linux Foundation throwing its chunk ‘o change into the $10B backed
platform, and Samsung releasing Tizen OS to run the whole show?
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TechCrunch
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