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Re:Honda and Nissan might team up against Tesla and other EV... by adolph on Friday March 15, 2024 @12:01PM (#39717252)
> We need cars buit like the ATX computer standard

Isn’t the controller area network an equivalent standard for interop? What’s keeping someone from offering a physical button that signals toggleLatch to the device providing glovebox services on the CAN bus?

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Re:Honda and Nissan might team up against Tesla and other EV... by AnarchismIsCool on Friday March 15, 2024 @12:05PM (#39717314)
CAN bus isn't an interoperable standard, it's closer to lightly structured I2C. It feels like the standards committee might be moving in that direction with the more ethernet style version they're pushing, but I need to sit down and play with it a bit.

While CAN is a standard, it's basically transport layer only. The automakers have all sorts of custom stuff on top of it that's wildly proprietary. Talk to a mechanic and they'll complain about how each car company requires them to buy their own special software suite for diagnosing issues.

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Re:Honda and Nissan might team up against Tesla and other EV... by dylan604 on Friday March 15, 2024 @12:03PM (#39717284)
Who is that someone? The person that bought the car, got frustrated, and is now looking for 3rd party/after market fixes? That seems like such a wrong solution to me.
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