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Re:The Car of the Future Will Sell Your Data by neurotech1 on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @10:28PM (#16426610)
I actually think Open Source Hardware for cars will be more common.[0] Replace the Dash computer with an Android version etc. Renault are already looking into an open source car.

Comma.ai did an open source L2 autonomous driving system.

[0] https://thepihut.com/blogs/raspberry-pi-roundup/an-open-sour...

[1] https://comma.ai/

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Re:The Car of the Future Will Sell Your Data by PinguTS on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @02:53AM (#16427720)
A car software is much much more than just the MMI.

A modern full-size luxury sedan has about 110 to 130 electronic control units from simple things like automatically open the doors and the trunk, to complex things like automatic beam light control (detecting obstacles that could be blinded so that this area is switch from high beam to low beam), automatic lane keeping, and even auto park.

None of those ECU is and will be using open source for various reasons.

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Re:The Car of the Future Will Sell Your Data by userbinator on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @07:06AM (#16428820)
to complex things like automatic beam light control (detecting obstacles that could be blinded so that this area is switch from high beam to low beam)

It's worth noting that manufacturers tried this before many decades ago, entirely without computers:

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/great-info-on-th...

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