Electric Cars Are Already Upending America | After years of promise, a massive shift is under way::After years of promise, a massive shift is under way.

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      10 months ago

      The car’s CAN bus is always driven by a highly available real-time OS.

      The car’s infotainment is often Android-based.

      Android (and to some extent Linux in general) is not suitable for hard real-time applications.

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        10 months ago

        Exactly. The person I was replying to is overstating things, and giving too much credit to Android. Misrepresenting.

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      10 months ago

      I don’t really know much about cars but isn’t QNX already powering a lot of cars? I assume if Android’s powering anything, it’s just the entertainment system