“The growth and momentum of AGL has been incredible in the past year,” Cauchy said. “We are at 60 members now. That’s about 50 percent growth in the past year.”
Source: www.eweek.com
AGL Open Automotive Linux is on a roll now…see it at CES this week.
Toyota Motor Corporation, Panasonic Corporation, DENSO CORPORATION, and Renesas Electronics are upgrading to the Platinum level,
Source: www.automotivelinux.org
Five Platinum level members (including Mazda, Toyota and 3 key suppliers) is a serious commitment with funding to enable collaborative development beyond just words. I think AGL may actually reach the goals many have been seeking around open automotive software.
This year a highlight will be the Renesas demo of their new R-Car H3 automotive processor
Source: www.linkedin.com
More notable is that Renesas includes an ASIL compliant dual lockstep core to enable FuSa applications including autonomous driving.
C3P0 once said “R2-D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer!” This Hollywood line applies quite nicely to the nearly 100 strange computers in your car.
Source: www.linkedin.com
We know that connected cars are not secure, now let’s fix them.
“bring the smartphone technology they’re comfortable with into a vehicle and use it without hassle,” Don Butler
Source: www.cio.com
I think this is big, and could set Ford apart, until others catch up. QNX integration is a good testimony to their developers talent and their planners requirements setting. I wonder how far behind SDL open source version will be under GENIVI Alliance control?
Japan’s dedicated 760 MHz frequency for intelligent transportation systems
Source: safecarnews.com
Japan jumped way ahead of NHTSA in getting V2X to market. Can the rest of the world learn from this?
At CES, Delphi will unveil another industry-first with an aftermarket V2V unit that will enable all equipped vehicles to talk with one another
Source: safecarnews.com
Clearly the aftermarket is the only way to move the mountain of V2X to enhance safety. Who wanted to have the first FAX machine with nobody to send documents to?
“We want to make this self service, letting people use Ovasys to try things out,” said Amrit Vivekanand
Source: articles.sae.org
“Try before you buy” is the new mantra for innovation in automotive. And a full scale ADAS vehicle is the way to build POCs for automated driving.
The average car had $333 worth of chip content as of 2014, an increase of 11 percent in the past four years
Source: safecarnews.com
I can see ADAS easily doubling this figure, a good time to have make past investments in automotive silicon development, tough time to enter from scratch with FuSa and security requirements escalating.
partnership is set to be announced by Ford at the Consumer Electronics Show in January
Source: safecarnews.com
Is anyone surprised there will be a commercialization plan for Google’s autocars? Like everything else they do, volume is key so Ford makes sense. CES will be interesting news week.
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