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This sounds like the real answer. Replacing an automotive standard with Ethernet is going to reduce friction onboarding junior webdevs with MacBooks, and enable
by numpad0 2y ago
This sounds like the real answer. Replacing an automotive standard with Ethernet is going to reduce friction onboarding junior webdevs with MacBooks, and enable a more stable higher turnover labor intensive organization.
- maxerickson 2y agoCAN to PC adapters are a few hundred dollars, it isn't causing much friction.
- m463 2y agoWith ethernet you can probably run the car software in containers. I can imagine a container to simulate each hardware unit, a small inter-contaner lan, and develop code that way.
- soco 2y agoReminds me when my Opel resetted itself while driving on the highway. Oh, the adrenaline...
- dpeckett 2y agoYou can already do this trivially with Linux vcan[1] so I don't buy this argument. I think the bigger factor is that innovation in the CAN ecosystem has been lagging behind Ethernet for decades now. Only reason it's had such staying power is industry inertia. 1. https://netmodule-linux.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howto/can.html#virtual-can-interface-vcan https://netmodule-linux.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howto/can.h...
- maxerickson 2y agoThe relative cost is probably a factor (which overlaps with inertia of course, but if the thing you already have implemented is also cheaper, you aren't going to hurry up and change).