“Humans aren’t going to trust the vehicles unless you address those [issues],”

Source: safecarnews.com

This is the crux of the matter – trust. We trust our cars today, but don’t really trust each other on the road. Meanwhile the infrastructure is not exactly the monorail at Disneyland.

attack could be carried out using a Raspberry Pi or an Arduino single-board computer

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

One thing about hackers, many are not well funded so a cheap platform is attractive. Laser pointers are about $2.50 and Raspberry Pi is under $50 populated. Scary.

200 million lines of code in a car, which means it’s unlikely to be bug-proof from day one, Ericsson’s Olsson said

Source: www.bloomberg.com

Duh, try day 3, 4, 1000. Like iOS complexity (last update fixed 100 problems) car software demands frequent updates if high functionality is included.

This has led some to choose Linux as a viable development platform, on the perceived basis that its cost is less than commercial alternatives

Source: www.qnx.com

I carefully read Chris’s paper and agree with nearly everything he says, except the idea that Linux is a “free puppy” unless he is referring to a Tibetan Mastiff (http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/world-expensive-dog-tibetan-mastiff-sells-2-million-article-1.1726647) in which case most would see the value. For automotive the issue is about sole sourcing I think, which QNX needs to address this whereas multiple automotive Linux suppliers already have. Looking forward to parts 2 and 3.

Our goal is to see this technology put in place as soon as possible

Source: safecarnews.com

Of course that’s what he said last year (was supposed to deliver on rulemaking in 2015) and pretty much every year before that for the last 15. Aftermarket is now finally making this happen, it would be nice for the government to catch up.

plans to make cars that drive themselves on highways by 2020

Source: www.wsj.com

One of those roads will likely be the streets of Tokyo during the 2020 Olympics. If Toyota had not changed course now, they may have been the only one without a car during the procession, that would be embarrassing.

$1 billion venture into autonomous vehicle technologies, artificial intelligence, materials science, robotics, and more

Source: articles.sae.org

Interesting that the huge investment is aligned with autonomous car developers that insist on being able to take a 10-minute bike ride to work.

missing from the list were car manufacturing giants such as Kia, Nissan and Toyota. Ford

Source: www.computerworld.com

There’s a reason for this — Smart Device Link. Of course SDL integrated systems will still need to provide Apple and Android’s phone experience so the absent OEMs will eventually join the “A-list”.

Reuss said: “We would never do that.”

Source: safecarnews.com

Never say “never” or so they say. OTA will eventually permeate the industry but it will take time to develop trust. Cost savings are always attractive to carmakers and as soon as OTA can prove that GM may change their mind.

Ford said France’s Peugeot SA and Japanese automakers Honda Motor Co , Subaru and Mazda Motor Corp are also investigating adopting SDL as a standard

Source: www.reuters.com

This may be the largest segment of the industry, collectively these automakers represent 58% of the US auto market (http://online.wsj.com/mdc/public/page/2_3022-autosales.html) a formidable competitor (not including global market) to Google and Apple control over the dashboard. Now we need an interoperability standard for SDL to make it universal.