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ECU can mean both engine control unit and electric control unit. The former is a safety critical hard real-time system, the latter can be anything including th
by panpanna 6y ago
ECU can mean both engine control unit and electric control unit.
The former is a safety critical hard real-time system, the latter can be anything including the widely open "infotainment" system.
My understanding is that AGL currently mostly targets infotainment systems.
- rightbyte 6y agoYe I know ECUs are more than the engine's ECU. I am fine with the car stereo running Linux and getting access to read only CAN data, or at-least with some hardware upstream CAN-filter for what it can send on CAN. Given the auto-update fad that breaks my stuff all the time on my office Win 10 computer (both from MS and the company IT department). I'm not very keen on having over the air updates for ECUs or the Infotainment system. At-least not automatic.
- rjsw 6y agoI did over the air updates of every ECU in a car 20 years ago. This was just a demo at the research lab of the car manufacturer but this has been possible for a fairly long time.