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Re:Volkswagen’s plan to create a new car operating system by codeulike on Monday September 16, 2019 @03:42PM (#20987830)
I think on most cars the infotainment systems runs on a separate computer that is connected to the drive computer via a bus. With a bit of commonsense design it should be fairly simple to have a car thats still useable without the infotainment computer.
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Re:Volkswagen’s plan to create a new car operating system by kozak on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @10:14AM (#20995309)
It indeed is fairly simple, but the manufacturer has no incentives to do that.
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