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Porsche will adopt Android Automotive, complete with Google apps

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Porsche has announced a collaboration with Google which will bring Android Automotive to the carmaker’s future vehicles. Announced in a...

Porsche will adopt Android Automotive, complete with Google apps
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  • I have to say, considering how Google half-asses things I'd have no confidence in this product. That said, a half-assed effort by Google is still probably better software than the full-ass software effort by carmakers.

    My real dream is to get these things fully modular. Let my lift up the touchscreen to access a cavity where a little infotainment-SBC is wired into a couple of USB ports and a mini DisplayPort. What's it got to run? Audio, touchscreen, GPS, phone-over-Bluetooth? That stuff is well-known. Basically the only place where I expect standard interfaces to fall on their face is climate control. As an API fallback, have the built-in car-computer run a private web-server for controlling the car's non-standard hardware. Then just have the SBC use a browser for those screens. Only API needed is "what URIs do I show for what features like climate or trip-odometer or whatever screens can't be standardized at the infotainment level".

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