Your Next Car's Electronics Will Likely Be Connected By Ethernet 180
Lucas123 writes "As the sophistication of automotive electronics advances, from autonomous driving capabilities to three-dimensional cameras, the industry is in need of greater bandwidth to connect devices to a car's head unit. Enter Ethernet. Industry standards groups are working to make 100Mbps and 1Gbps Ethernet de facto standards within the industry. Currently, there are as many as nine proprietary auto networking specifications, including LIN, CAN/CAN-FD, MOST and FlexRay. FlexRay, for example, has a 10Mbps transmission rate. Making Ethernet the standard in the automotive industry could also open avenues for new apps. For example, imagine a driver getting turn-by-turn navigation while a front-seat passenger streams music from the Internet, and each back-seat passenger watches streaming videos on separate displays."
This might get us into trouble when the Cylons show up.
Re: Stop reinventing the wheel. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Imagine (Score:4, Funny)
What a fantastic idea! By switching to a well understood standard it will finally make our vehicles trivial to hack!
Ohh.. wait.. maybe that isn't such a good thing? *shrug*
Well I look forward to the day in which I no longer have to call a taxi, I can just take out my laptop and make one drive to my location.
I'm OK with ethernet in cars (Score:4, Funny)
As long as I don't have to make my own cables.
One of the longest days of my life was many years ago when I told a friend I could wire up his little storefront business if he bought a spool of Cat5 and a bunch of connectors.
I sat there with that crimping tool and my fumblefingers and invented entire new categories of curse words. A friend from a local Army base came by and for a few slices of pizza and a six-pack he knocked out those cables like nothing.
It was a humbling experience. Which I probably should not have shared here on Slashdot because you guys were probably all making your own ethernet cables since your were like five years old.
Re:Huh? (Score:3, Funny)
Whatever you do, do NOT let the token fall out of the network, because you'll never find it in all the crap on the side of our roads.