Cars have been computers on wheels for at least 15 years now.
this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2024
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If only. They are more like rolling SmartTVs. Once they stop getting updates, only the offline features will work.
Please tell me someone thought about a switch to take them offline.
Then whatever is fucked in the electronics will be fucked forever.
Just like it has been for the last 20 years or so.
this should be part of car safety and legislated by the govt, no?
in the uk it would be part of the MOT to see that your software is up to date and working
Just like they legislate vehicle size, headlight brightness, and enforce fuel economy standards?
Now car do get dlx, subscription.
And when you sell a car, all dlc are lost.
.......linux cars? Pretty please?
Vehicle control systems are overwhelmingly programmed in C, mostly from graphical design tools such as MATLAB Simulink via an automatic process. These are real time control systems which are quite different to an interrupt based operating system such as Linux. The many individual controllers must work in concert according to a strict architecture definition and timing schedule that defines the functionality of the vehicle. It's not at all like a PC or phone, whose OS become irrelevant over time, with respect to their environment of other systems. The vehicle environment is the same environment that we inhabit i.e. the one with gravity, friction, charge and the other SI units. This is slowly changing with advent of self driving but, yeah.
This is correct. If using an OS, an RTOS like the Linux Foundation Zephyr OS is the right choice here.
These are real time control systems which are quite different to an interrupt based operating system such as Linux.
You do know you can operate the linux kernel in real time, right?
It's not a hard real time OS though. Real Time Linux would be appropriate for some subsystems in a car, but not for things that are safety critical with hard timing constraints, e.g. ABS controllers.
Yeah but the infotainment system can be Linux based.
fine, fine, I learned 3/4 new things there, thanks for taking the time
God no
They no roll?
Late stage capitalism
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