Update on the Japanese automakers' operating system
Today we take you all the way back to 2004 with an update on the Japan Automotive Software Platform and Architecture, or JASPAR for short. This is a consortium of Japanese automotive and technology companies, which is developing a new standard operating system for Japanese vehicles. A competing OS is being designed in Europe by BMW and Daimler, among others. Currently, Bosch owns about 70% of the current market share when it comes to automotive electronics with their OS, known as OSEK.
As you are most definitely aware if you have purchased a car in the last few years, our expectations are that our vehicles will come with more and more gadgets, and we also expect them to work right all the time. Nobody wants to reboot their cars in the morning when they are running late for work, right? Even worse would be the dreaded BSOD while driving 70 mph down the highway on your way home. So, let's just hope that the "development by committee" approach pays off and the end result is reliable.
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sean 9:33PM (8/05/2007)
Japan Automotive Software Platform and Architecture versus German equivalent. I would bet my life(literally) on the Japanese system will be much more reliable, perhaps less complicated, but certainly more dependable.
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FikseGTS 9:50PM (8/05/2007)
It's pretty sad when the BMW manual shows you how to reboot iDrive....
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ckm 1:37AM (8/06/2007)
The iDrive actually runs Windows. So do a number of Japanese manufacturers, including Honda and Toyota
See the bottom of this press release for a list:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/feb05/02-24TelematicsCollaborationPR.mspx
I seem to remember that the German effort was around Linux and that the Japanese were using TRON (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_Project).
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P to the C 8:55AM (8/06/2007)
Don't things developed by committee always turn out great? And if auto companies don't even want to make many of their own car parts why would they want to build their own OS? And call me old fashioned, but why does a car need an OS anyway?
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Takeo 1:59PM (8/06/2007)
Well... Linux has evolved under a committee model hasn't it? Is it so bad? I admit it has it's problems but on the whole it's become an OS for almost everything. There's nothing bad about designing in a committee as long as the management is good and the goals are focused.
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