In February, Volvo had announced that in 2017 it would test 100 autonomous cars on certain roads in Gothenburg, Sweden.
At this week's Los Angeles Auto Show, Volvo showed its prototype of what the interior of an autonomous car might look like. It features a folding tray table built into the driver's door, a 25-inch video display in the glove compartment, and a tablet-like screen in the center console.
The Chinese-owned automaker demonstrated three different configurations of the interior: "Drive," in which a person drives the car; "Create," in which the occupants occupy themselves with reading or using a laptop computer; and "Relax," in which the driver's-side seat reclines and the occupants look at videos on the 25-inch screen.
Björn Annwall, a senior vice president at the company, said that its planned autonomous cars would be developed together with Microsoft, and that the two companies are "exploring a number of different collaborations."
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(Score: 2) by davester666 on Sunday November 22 2015, @09:36AM
Volvo is just playing at being an interior decorator now...
(Score: 2) by turgid on Sunday November 22 2015, @11:39AM
This is what happens when the PHBs take over. It's too risky to do proper innovation, so they resort to reinventing the user interface and cutting (internal) costs.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 22 2015, @10:36AM
Attention, Chinese workers. American managers know how to manage you. Continue making things, while your American managers attend meetings to decide what you should be doing for your American managers. Keep your American managers in the loop, because American managers know what is best for you. America is #1 and always will be forever for all time.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Sunday November 22 2015, @11:55AM
Isn't that precious. I won't be buying a Volvo. I'd much rather the automaker hired people and made their own damned operating system and interfaces. Any of the automakers can start with just about any unix-like, for little to no cost. Hire the right people, it's a finished product in a year or two, ready for deployment. Hire the wrong people, and you're still no worse off than hiring Microsoft.
Can you code BSOD's on Unix?
(Score: 5, Funny) by c0lo on Sunday November 22 2015, @12:17PM
New perspective of the very old joke:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 22 2015, @10:22PM
11. Whenever you reach for the turn signal lever, Clippy would get in the way.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 22 2015, @04:14PM
Auto makers should standardise the components and API's and let people install whichever certified OS they like. This is one situation in which a monopoly over secure boot certificates is justifiable on safety and liability grounds.