(No side is going to give up control to make it happen but,) I'd love love love the Chromecast model of software here:
There is a competent powerful computer here, running a standard platform (the web). Load whatever software you will! Add some new web-sensors that are car specific like throttle, rpm, fuel efficiency.
A little trickier is harnessing the physical inputs of the car. Sure many of these could probably map to gamepads fine, but there's probably some extra needed.
Of course it keeps going. There's so many peripherals. Multi-zone climate control, windows, adaptive cruise control display. Projecting backup and 360 cameras into getUserMedia. Ideally you don't stop at a single user mode, ideally somehow side & rear passengers also fit into the model.
But the root idea holds very well in my mind. A powerful canvas for software, using perhaps the world's best hypermedia engine. "Run this URL" is kind of all it takes!
Shout out to defunct Webinos, a very interesting project that had some inroads on automotive, where the car privately securely made itself accessible over a secure virtual private network to the owner. Less about porting interfaces in, but still amazing pro-user IoT that the world has only ever fallen away from in the decade since.
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(No side is going to give up control to make it happen but,) I'd love love love the Chromecast model of software here:
There is a competent powerful computer here, running a standard platform (the web). Load whatever software you will! Add some new web-sensors that are car specific like throttle, rpm, fuel efficiency.
A little trickier is harnessing the physical inputs of the car. Sure many of these could probably map to gamepads fine, but there's probably some extra needed.
Of course it keeps going. There's so many peripherals. Multi-zone climate control, windows, adaptive cruise control display. Projecting backup and 360 cameras into getUserMedia. Ideally you don't stop at a single user mode, ideally somehow side & rear passengers also fit into the model.
But the root idea holds very well in my mind. A powerful canvas for software, using perhaps the world's best hypermedia engine. "Run this URL" is kind of all it takes!
Shout out to defunct Webinos, a very interesting project that had some inroads on automotive, where the car privately securely made itself accessible over a secure virtual private network to the owner. Less about porting interfaces in, but still amazing pro-user IoT that the world has only ever fallen away from in the decade since.