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> infotainment systems are underpowered, because they’re considered an afterthought. Also, cars sell in the millions. Car manufacturers will redesign a circuit
by fl7305 3y ago
> infotainment systems are underpowered, because they’re considered an afterthought.
Also, cars sell in the millions. Car manufacturers will redesign a circuit board if it will save them cents on each board.
So it is always a struggle to put a more powerful CPU in there.
- jimmaswell 3y agoInfotainment responsiveness needs to be a NHTSA regulation. The mental load of dealing with laggy and unresponsive radios is surely causing accidents. Even if at worst it adds another $100 to the cost of the car to get a good enough cpu, so what?
- sbierwagen 3y agoApple made a computer with a fast, responsive UI in 1984 using a chip that ran at 7.8 mhz and had 128 kb of ram. You don't need a fast chip to eliminate lag. It's just incompetence.
- jonathankoren 3y agoThey weren't doing that much either. I doubt an Apple ][ could even stream modern audio codecs via bluetooth, let alone simultaneously run a local search on the GPS database.
- fl7305 3y agoSure. I've used home computers since 1979. The graphics were instantaneous back then even on a few MHz and 16 kBytes of RAM. We don't want slow and laggy UIs because the software is bloated. But I responded to this part: > The real issue is that the infotainment systems are underpowered And my point was that it is far harder than it seems to put more powerful CPUs in cars.