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:D

But seriously I like the sound of it. It means that you won't have to go through heck for licnesning and thus up the value. At the same time I wonder if it will be available to others than the ones listed in a future time?

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The only company that's worth respecting for their reliability record and green record is (in the trio) Honda, Nissan suffers from Euro connections (yays, let's put unproven technologies into our cars to drive costs down!).

Sorry to hate Toyota.]]>Jul 30th 2007 10:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/Jul 30th 2007 10:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/
Also the Nissan Micras built in Sunderland (I think) UK suffer incredible reliability problems.]]>Jul 30th 2007 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/Jul 30th 2007 10:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/
www.whatcar.co.uk/news-special-report.aspx?NA=217350# ]]>Jul 30th 2007 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/Jul 30th 2007 9:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/
This will be a boon to aftermarket companies who can then just put new fueling and timing maps in the computer, tweak transmission shiftpoints, etc.

Should be an interesting development.]]>Jul 30th 2007 9:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/http://www.autosar.org)]]>Jul 30th 2007 9:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/You don't want your car "crashing" and getting the Blue Screen of death.
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Just hope that this OS they're developing isn't on junky cheap cars. It's not a wonder why people would have a problem with it. ]]>Jul 30th 2007 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/Jul 30th 2007 9:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/
Apple: no ergonomics, style over substance
MS: keeps crashing
Linux: we don't need the hassle just to boot the car up

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I like the idea. Standardising the software would mean slightly cheaper maintenance.]]>Jul 30th 2007 10:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/
I also have a P2 233Mhz box in the living room, serving printers over the network with an 802.11g pci card in it. over 2 month uptime, no keyboard, mouse, or display on it. all I had to do on it was press the power button after I got it all set up.. No problems whatsoever.]]>Jul 30th 2007 11:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/Jul 30th 2007 12:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/Jul 30th 2007 10:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/Jul 30th 2007 10:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/
Okay, I'll chime in not as an Apple fanboy that I am, but as a California motorist.

We don't need what BMW was trying to do with Windows. The New York Times joked about bringing new meaning to the term BSOD.

The first version of iDrive in, I think it was, the 7 series BMWs not only would shut the car down dead when traveling at highway speeds, but would spit CDs at the passenger. Now, that might not seem dangerous, but why give the RIAA another excuse to do anything? :-D ]]>Jul 30th 2007 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/Jul 30th 2007 10:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/Jul 30th 2007 10:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/
Fine if you want a white car.]]>Jul 30th 2007 10:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/
My post about the battery and cracked windscreen is if JobsCo got the contract.]]>Jul 30th 2007 10:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/Jul 30th 2007 10:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/
Thanks for the info.]]>Jul 30th 2007 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/Jul 30th 2007 11:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/Jul 30th 2007 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/
Car companies (I work for one) fight tooth and nail to keep basic things like OBD info secret...you can bet they'll do the same to keep users from messing with a car's central operating system. Engine control by tweakers is one thing...messing with the operating system that manages everything else is something else entirely.

Liability and warranty issues alone would preclude a car company from allowing end user access to such a system, let alone technical issues.

Now, if on the very slim chance car companies would allow such access, there's going to be a huge amount of money to be made trading on the consumer fear factor by selling anti-virus and firewall type software specifically designed for cars.
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1'm, in j00r c4r, h4x0ring j00t w33lz

Sorry, I had to get that out. I'm thinking that this system is going to be the predecessor to the "drives itself" kind of stuff we've seen in science fiction movies for years now. GPS navigation device + car that operates itself = less time stuck behind the bozo going 45 on the highway (I would hope).

Granted I don't expect to see a viable version of something like that in less than... 15 years, but it might be nice.]]>Jul 30th 2007 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/
I think you're right about auto-drive cars (pun intended) are a long way off in the future. Not that we couldn't do it now, but that manufacturers are going to be reluctant to do it because most people would never trust a OS of any brand (Mac, PC, Linux, BSD, or even Solaris) to drive as well as your average high school dropout.

When I was a kid way back in the mid-60s, I remember a car designer visiting my family. He talked about planting guides in streets and having cars drive themselves using such guides, and using radar to keep them separated. The vision was to allow us to read the paper (Never heard of a bus or train?) on the way to work, and to be safer than we are now. And yet, to this day it hasn't come true even though it has been possible for years. ]]>Jul 30th 2007 3:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/Jul 30th 2007 12:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/
Every time I try to back up the car these two white lights come on in the back and it starts beeping!

Either that or the car won't move at all and it keeps asking me for a disc!!

They need to talk to the Thermos people so it will know on it's own.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go boot up my feet for an old-fashioned browse through the woods.]]>Jul 30th 2007 12:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/Jul 30th 2007 1:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/Jul 30th 2007 3:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/Jul 30th 2007 4:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/What about a Beowulf cluster of these?
I for one welcome our new Japanese Automobile overlords.
I'm Jim Halpert...na na na ...little night rider comment...]]>Jul 30th 2007 4:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/japanese-automakers-collaborate-on-operating-system/Once upon a time, a baby octopus was born.....

.....in Korea. THE END.]]>Jul 30th 2007 10:47PM