Open Source Delivers

This week marks two major milestones for OSS-based automotive platform development. First, the GENIVI Alliance, an industry consortium of automotive OEMs and suppliers dedicated to building an open source in-vehicle infotainment platform, has opened three projects to the open source community, and stressed their continued dedication to open source-based IVI standards. The Linux Foundation will host these [...]

I had the pleasure of spending past three weeks on the road talking to many members of the automotive IVI (in-vehicle infotainment) software supply community in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Interestingly, a little-known fact:  IVI represents up to 80% of all software running in today’s premium class cars (up to 100 million lines of [...]

A revolution is underway in the automotive industry, and no, it’s not only about hybrids, electric vehicles, or improving the efficiency of the internal combustion engine. Open source software (OSS) is now driving changes in the automotive “human-to-machine” interfaces. If you take a step back, you can see two recent waves of change in the [...]

Last week, Ford introduced its open source platform, OpenXC, developed by Ford Research & Innovation along with New York-based Bug Labs to allow developers real-time access to vehicle data and sensors, GPS and speed while keeping this platform isolated from the control system (great idea!). It’s awesome to see Ford driving this type of open [...]