10/15/2010

It's a connected Corvette!

Last week, I teased you with glimpses of the new QNX concept car, which is set to make its debut at the SAE Convergence auto show. Well, no more teasing. Here is the car — a digitally pimped-out Corvette — in all its decaled glory:


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Stay tuned: Over the next couple of days, I will invite you inside and reveal some of the goodies embedded in the Corvette’s dash. These include a digital instrument cluster that can dynamically reconfigure itself and a head unit that can talk to smart-phone apps.

BTW, the Corvette will also make an appearance at ARM TechCon, which will be held November 9-11 in Santa Clara. (Hm, I guess that means that the cluster or head unit is using an ARM-based processor...)

To keep up to date on the car and the many QNX demos at the Convergence conference, subscribe to the QNX Twitter stream, twitter.com/QNX_News.

 
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8 comments:

  1. Kroy Chang-Zeviar10/18/10, 2:38 PM

    Paul, great post. As the ARM Techcon show indicates, we're excited about the arrival of ARM processors in the CAR. We're starting with a Freescale i.MX51 platform and looking forward to incorporating Texas Instruments Jacinto designs as well. Stay Tuned!

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  2. Rennie Allen10/18/10, 4:19 PM

    What's cool about a Corvette?

    A Tesla Roadster is cool, a Fisker is cool...

    A corvette is a 25 year old design, with a polluting V8, and a 0-60 no better than the Tesla.

    If you want a car that speaks to how cool and advanced QNX is, I would go with either a fisker or a tesla, not a dinosaur...

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  3. Paul N. Leroux10/18/10, 4:26 PM

    Well, having been accused of being a dinosaur myself... ;-)

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  4. Rennie Allen10/18/10, 5:05 PM

    A Corvette is what I would expect for a Linux demo... A shiny skin over what is fundamentally 100 year old technology.

    I believe that, like QNX itself, the demo vehicle should have more to it than just an attractive set of skins...

    Not sure what you paid for the 'vette, but you can buy a Tesla for 100K (https://www.teslamotors.com/own), and I think that missing the chance to have a genuinely technologically advanced vehicle for what can't be more than a 50K delta, is to miss a great marketing oppty.

    I wonder what model of car Apple would have selected, if they were making a demo vehicle for Apple software?

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  5. Anonymous10/19/10, 2:12 AM

    I totally agree with Rennie, a 'vette is not the car I would have expected.
    My first guess was also a Tesla, or if you want a real shiny car an Audi etron (the electrified R8).
    That would have been cool.
    /hp

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  6. Nancy E Young10/19/10, 2:25 PM

    Both the Fisker and the Tesla are high-end luxury cars. We wanted something a little more accessible.

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  7. Paul N. Leroux10/19/10, 2:32 PM

    ... but still fun :-)

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  8. Anonymous10/19/10, 9:16 PM

    Go with Chevy WiFi powered by Autonet Mobile in the Corvette, available now, completely seamless connection to the internet for all app delivery, streaming, etc.

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