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Good to know. It seems like CAN may be more robust than I'm giving it credit for. You seem like the person to ask: We've had mandatory back up cameras on the rear of our vehicles for awhile now. Why haven't we seen these cameras used as a rear-facing dashcam? It seems like it would be super...

I suspect Ford putting ADAS on the same system as media software is because the CAN bus can't handle ADAS. As as a system integrator, I hate your usage of "integrated systems" in this context. These aren't integrated systems, these are systems that don't integrate and that's the problem.

Funny story: On of our robot suppliers had to rush a new model of robot controller to market. Their previous robot controller was Windows CE based. Since the newer Microsoft offerings rely heavily on cloud services and it's generally unwise to put robots on the internet, their new robot...

Some Teslas don't use CAN bus, it's not used on "EVERY vehicle on the road". The automation world (such as the robots and machines used in manufacturing vehicles) moved away from serial communication systems (such RS-232, Profibus, and CAN bus) about 20 years ago. In automotive terms it's...

As a zero-emission vehicle Slate is exempt from the Federal emissions requirements to use OBD-II and the associated CAN bus. I've seen that California requires the SAE J1962 connector, the connector used by the OBD-II system, for the sake of allowing anyone to read diagnostic codes. California's...

The idea of complete vehicle customization obviously appeals to a lot of us. Vehicles are becoming less customizable as vehicles become more electronic, with those electronics being a "black box" that end users aren't able to modify. It doesn't have to be this way. In industry it is common...