It doesn't take much driving to notice that many in-car infotainment [1] systems are custom-built and locked down tight. The Linux Foundation [2] sees it differently and wants our cars to embrace the same notions of common roots and open code that we'd find in an Ubuntu [3] box. Its newly-formed Automotive Grade Linux Workgroup is transforming Tizen [4] into a reference platform that car designers can use for the center stack, or even the instrument cluster.
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