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When the 2018 Toyota Camry comes out later this year, it will come with a new generation infotainment system in the dashboard that Toyota calls Entune 3.0. Behind the scenes, this new system relies on Automotive Grade Linux (AGL), an open-source operating system hosted by The Linux Foundation.
The Camry marks the first production win for AGL, and the Linux proponents behind it couldn't have asked for a more popular car to host its debut. Toyota sold an average of 396,000 Camrys in the US every year over the past decade.
Automotive infotainment systems, which usually combine navigation, digital audio, hands-free phone calling and third-party apps, have been developed by automakers and equipment suppliers alike, leading to fragmentation and disparate interfaces unique to each brand of vehicle. AGL attempts to make a unified dashboard operating system, freeing automotive software engineers from individual platform development.
The current-generation Entune system in Toyota vehicles works reasonably well, providing in-dash navigation, the ability to play music from connected smartphones and Toyota's own app integration system, which lets drivers search Yelp or perform more general online searches to find destinations. The adoption of AGL could give Toyota a more future-proof system, with software that can be updated as cars age.
Toyota, which had been a member of the AGL group, chose to use it as the basis for Entune 3.0, its newest in-dash infotainment system. The new Entune will use what Toyota calls App Suite Connect for app integration, although there is no word yet as to which apps it will support. Lower-trim Camrys will integrate the Scout app for navigation, using the driver's smartphone. Higher-trim cars will come with a new onboard navigation system with over-the-air map updates. Toyota also notes the Camry includes a Wi-Fi hotspot supported by a 4G/LTE data connection.
It comes with a steering wheel, but everything can also be controlled from the command prompt..."user@camry:~$ sudo service car start"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 01 2017, @05:03PM (3 children)
I am just going to have to wait for Runaway to comment on this. The man is such a fountain of knowledge and experience. Probably could fix us up with both an eight-track deck, and a car that talks to you, or at least to David Hasseldorf.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 01 2017, @06:49PM (2 children)
Personally, I want to hear from Frojack. That guy is a pontificator's pontificator.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 01 2017, @08:03PM (1 child)
Then surely jmorris could weigh in with a tale of how a singalong with your kids is the only infotainment required in-car. Plus the man something something.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 01 2017, @10:13PM
A veritable intellectual feast on SoylentNews! Why wait for one Godot, when you can wait for three? [For our luminaries, "Godot" is the title of, appropriately, an absurdist drama by Samuel Beckett:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_Godot [wikipedia.org]
Much like SoylentNews these days. ]