With software becoming more important than ever, how can engaging the security industry make the road ahead less winding?
Here at CES, the car manufacturers race to launch the latest gadgets in their new models before the competition. And that’s hard to do without breaking down the software silos. That would mean using widely developed, open-source toolsets with rich histories, not developing similar functionality that’s already available, but in your own black box. Auto manufacturers have resisted this for years.
For example, why aren’t car makers standardizing around Automotive Grade Linux (AGL)? While some are warming to the idea, it’s taken years to make even modest progress. An open-source initiative aimed squarely at providing the underpinnings for a new generation of automotive innovation – it’s been a long time coming.
Why? Historically, the car manufacturers have been busy perfecting their technology silos, complete with specialized developers, piles of legacy code (that will last forever) with technology they (mostly) understand. Still, it’s not a smooth way forward.
No? Ask operating system manufacturers who built the whole stack themselves. Later, they understood the differentiator in the market was in the magic they built on the foundation perfected by others. It worked. Using a foundation of open source yields a product with better features, sooner, which consumers are happy to buy. Not so much in the car market. Yet.
Still, with the advocacy of The Linux Foundation and seemingly glacial pace of buy-in – first from the tier one providers in a sort of begrudging forward motion of the automotive manufacturers themselves – we’re finally seeing progress.
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