Toyota does not mention Linux in its promotion for the Lexus IS, which appears to have recently gone on sale. Yesterday, Rudolf Streif, Director of Embedded Solutions with the Linux Foundation and the Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) working group, outed Toyota’s 2014 Lexus IS luxury sedan as being the second major car brand to offer a Linux-based IVI navigation system. GM’s Cadillac CUE was built by GENIVI Alliance members MontaVista Software and Bosch and uses similar code, but is not listed as compliant with the open GENIVI spec. Last year, GM’s Cadillac division released a Debian Linux-based Cadillac User Experience (CUE) IVI system, initially built into the Cadillac XTS and now also available in the Cadillac SRX. Now, however, a second car manufacturer - Toyota - is introducing a Linux IVI system, according to the Linux Foundation. Since the GENIVI Foundation was launched in 2009 to foster standardization on automotive computers built on open source Linux, the move toward Linux-based IVI and connected automotive telematics systems has been halting. Meanwhile, ABI Research projects that Linux will quickly grow to represent 20 percent of automotive computers by 2018, pulling closer to Microsoft behind industry-leading QNX. A Linux Foundation executive revealed that the 2014 Toyota Lexus IS is the second major automobile to offer an in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) system based on Linux. Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Reddit Pinterest Email
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