Specs for Cars?

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRLh2Fvd4qvC-ZeRYg4T9TUvY1zKRpUE02I1pwEBia1gLCOrVQJHYIeFTZrPi47e1wPSKVrLyrYSnHklqnDMGrcZXykCuaiWydCRUv7RcHbGB4hnAtfIhLmbBLDw11bOXpim4cGwXshrs/s1600/tina_jeffrey.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRLh2Fvd4qvC-ZeRYg4T9TUvY1zKRpUE02I1pwEBia1gLCOrVQJHYIeFTZrPi47e1wPSKVrLyrYSnHklqnDMGrcZXykCuaiWydCRUv7RcHbGB4hnAtfIhLmbBLDw11bOXpim4cGwXshrs/s1600/tina_jeffrey.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr align="center"><td class="tr-caption"><b>Tina Jeffrey</b></td></tr></tbody></table>As <a href="http://www.google.com/glass/start/">Google Glass</a>, the latest in experimental computer wearables, starts to make its way into the hands of select users, a multitude of use cases is popping up. For instance, a <a href="http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/04/google-glass-car/">WIRED article</a> recently explored the notion of your car being a ‘killer app’ for Google Glass. Now, you may not want to think of your car as a killer app, but let’s contemplate this use case for a moment. <br /><br />Drivers wearing Glass could pair their new specs to their phone and instantly have a personal heads-up display (HUD) that overlays virtual road signs and GPS information over the scene in front of them. For instance:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyywD7XI97CPvnUdwLFGhP5z6lyG45xoXyAXrK76ymY_mg2DSWWyZZBQdmA9KZfTIrFQdpZEobiw-YX0CaMPDTij46h4RBSLcbErrhycmveB4M8EDtXTObmjFXHkPXhy50PGGB5y6_wWA/s1600/glass_550.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyywD7XI97CPvnUdwLFGhP5z6lyG45xoXyAXrK76ymY_mg2DSWWyZZBQdmA9KZfTIrFQdpZEobiw-YX0CaMPDTij46h4RBSLcbErrhycmveB4M8EDtXTObmjFXHkPXhy50PGGB5y6_wWA/s1600/glass_550.jpg" /></a><br /><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: Google</span></b><br /><br />Glass also understands voice commands and could dictate an email, display turn by turn directions, or set up and display point-of-interest destination data based on a simple voice command such as “Find the nearest Starbucks”. <br /><br />This is all very cool — but does it bring anything new to the driving experience that isn’t already available? Not really. Car makers have already deployed voice-enabled systems to interface with navigation and location-based services; these services either run locally or are accessed through a brought-in mobile device and displayed on the head unit in a safe manner. ADAS algorithms, meanwhile, perform real-time traffic sign detection and recognition to display speed limits on the vehicle’s HUD. All this technology exists today and works quite well. <br /><br /><b>Catch me if you can</b><br />Another aspect to consider is the regulatory uncertainty created by drivers wearing these types of devices. Police can spot a driver with their head down texting on a cellphone or watching a movie on a DVD player. But detecting a driver performing these same activities while wearing a head-mounted display — not so easy. There’s no way of knowing whether the activities a driver is engaged in are driving related or an outright distraction. Unlike an HUD specified by the automaker, which is designed to coordinate and synchronize displayed data based on vehicle conditions and an assessment of cognitive load, a head-mounted display like Glass could give a driver free reign to engage in any activity at any time. This flies in the face of driver distraction guidelines being promulgated by government agencies.<br /><br />Don’t get me wrong. Glass is cool technology, and I see viable applications for it. For instance, as an alternative to helmet cams when filming a first-person perspective of a ski run down a mountain, or in taking augmented reality gaming to the next level. (You can see many other applications on the <a href="http://www.google.com/glass/start/what-it-does/">Glass site</a>.) But Glass is a personal display that operates as an extension of your cellphone, not as a replacement for a car’s HUD. Cars need well-integrated, useable systems that can safely enhance the driving experience. Because of this, I don’t believe that devices like Glass, as they are currently conceived, will garner a spot in our cars.<br /><br />

Specs for Cars?

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Report from Barcelona: first meeting of the W3C automotive business group

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEMqLMG4uRYIBGHO_3EDY2l-iA8U4UATEJI14VuO7seVxXDG0UBieY2wn8FytPx2bk10ZjtSCLZRunqR3XZRomweUnUPM2-xOZeELd-4odUyKQVZyLg5ILBybAS3eG1gRSNIWqDsm2GNM/s1600/andy_gryc.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEMqLMG4uRYIBGHO_3EDY2l-iA8U4UATEJI14VuO7seVxXDG0UBieY2wn8FytPx2bk10ZjtSCLZRunqR3XZRomweUnUPM2-xOZeELd-4odUyKQVZyLg5ILBybAS3eG1gRSNIWqDsm2GNM/s1600/andy_gryc.jpg" /></a></div>Last week, I had the privilege of attending the first face-to-face meeting of the <a href="http://www.w3.org/community/autowebplatform/">W3C automotive business group</a> and the honor of being nominated group co-chair. (The other co-chair is Adam Abramski, an open source project manager for Intel.) With more than 70 members, the group has already become the eight-largest group in the W3C, even though it is barely two months old. Clearly, it’s generating a lot of interest.<br /><br />The meeting included three presentations and two contributions. I presented on the lessons we’ve learned with the <a href="http://www.qnx.com/products/qnxcar/index.html">QNX CAR platform</a>, how we think the market is changing, and how these changes should drive HTML5 standardization efforts.<br /><br />I presented my three “musts” for standardizing HTML5 in the car:<br /><ol><li>Must create something designed to run apps, not HMIs (unless HMIs come along for free)</li><li>Must focus on mobile developers as the target development audience</li><li>Must support integration of HTML5 environments with native environments like EB Guide and Qt</li></ol>I described some of the changes that have resulted from the alignment of the QNX CAR platform with the <a href="http://cordova.apache.org/">Apache Cordova framework</a>, and why they are crucial to our HTML5 work. Unfortunately, we didn't have our W3C contribution ready due to these changes, but members generally agreed that having a standard consistent with mobile development was an appropriate course change.<br /><br />Tizen and GenIVI gave presentations about their vehicle APIs. Tizen has contributed its APIs, but GenIVI hasn't yet — still waiting on final approvals. Webinos contributed its APIs before the meeting, but didn’t deliver a presentation on its contribution; members had reviewed the Webinos work before the meeting.<br /><br />The meeting was a great chance to sit down with people I don’t normally meet. Overall, the group is moving in the right direction, creating a standard that can help automakers bring the goodness of HTML5 into the car.<br /><br />

Report from Barcelona: first meeting of the W3C automotive business group

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Traveling on reserve power

<b><i>Or how a new kind of electro-mobility can be fun. A guest post from Thomas Fleischmann of Elektrobit Automotive.</i></b><br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgofCPtKjGiwAnaln28ghQEqF3KRw41pD-gLjQymYMlfVENdl3kHVASwouFjTB1xFvgzPMjChEfM80rAsIZNwzV0EZSy36CBktdZ2jibLSSgaawNfVYKI95Xfeb_0AqtnoFckMNEw3YK9s/s1600/thomasf_elektrobit_crop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgofCPtKjGiwAnaln28ghQEqF3KRw41pD-gLjQymYMlfVENdl3kHVASwouFjTB1xFvgzPMjChEfM80rAsIZNwzV0EZSy36CBktdZ2jibLSSgaawNfVYKI95Xfeb_0AqtnoFckMNEw3YK9s/s320/thomasf_elektrobit_crop.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Thomas Fleishmann</b></td></tr></tbody></table>Imagine you are always driving on reserve power. You find this difficult? Get used to it — and welcome to the new era of electro-mobility! Vehicles like the Chevy Volt, with its secondary combustion engine, are already addressing this challenge — but having to support two types of driving technology can be challenging and costly.<br /><br />So how can electro-mobility, which is supported by software, be implemented meaningfully? And how do we get drivers to accept it? Certainly not by abandoning the driver with nothing but a nicely animated display of the car’s battery condition. <br /><br />Let's assume you live in a big city. You don’t even own a car. Instead, you subscribe to a certain number of hours of travel time with your favorite car brand. In addition to your S or XL subscription for four weeks a year, you get access to a fossil-fuel engine for your vacation in another state or country twice a year. <br /><br />In the morning you find and reserve a car with your BlackBerry phone and get into it at a nearby charge-point. The HMI adapts to your profile settings automatically — your friends, contacts, addresses, and music are already there. The navigation system is your energy consultant; it tells you, based on traffic conditions and topography, how far you can drive with this car and, at the appropriate time, suggests an available electric socket within easy reach. Or the system warns you to turn back soon if you want to arrive home safely. After parking the car successfully, your smartphone guides you for the last few kilometers by bus or subway to your destination — it knows the way and easily adopts the data of your navigation system. <br /><br />Using software solutions like <a href="http://automotive.elektrobit.com/home/infotainment-software/hmi/eb-guide-products.html">EB GUIDE</a> or <a href="http://automotive.elektrobit.com/home/infotainment-software/navigation-software/eb-street-director.html">EB street director</a> and frameworks like the <a href="http://www.qnx.com/products/qnxcar/">QNX CAR application platform</a> you can concentrate on creating the end-user experience and transform the journey on reserve power into something fun and convenient — suddenly an electric vehicle becomes a smart mobility concept. <br /><br />Check this out; I fried it last week. The yellow center represents the area in which you can drive and go back home. The white area represents the range you can drive, depending on traffic or topography:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC9FPOTEfOksSj4yXCXDQ1KkZvPxpgHPYf44ZWnQskFWevtkGp3bMKwacAeZgc3CQJuTkb4ws6n-ZekDCNFgfIErhbePODnr239_fgoKBTWWexgSGdEfyJVg_AHZp9nKhyrCBXp-Q0tuM/s1600/egg_image_for_elektrobit_electro_post.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC9FPOTEfOksSj4yXCXDQ1KkZvPxpgHPYf44ZWnQskFWevtkGp3bMKwacAeZgc3CQJuTkb4ws6n-ZekDCNFgfIErhbePODnr239_fgoKBTWWexgSGdEfyJVg_AHZp9nKhyrCBXp-Q0tuM/s1600/egg_image_for_elektrobit_electro_post.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><hr /><br /><i>Thomas Fleischmann is Senior Product Manager at <a href="http://www.elektrobit.com/">Elektrobit Automotive</a> responsible for the HMI solution EB GUIDE. Contact him at <a href="mailto:Thomas.Fleischmann@elektrobit.com">Thomas.Fleischmann@elektrobit.com</a>.<br /></i><br /><br />

Traveling on reserve power

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Pandora interview: Using HTML5 to deliver content to the car

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_0vKFdANNh-jTOyYI5uOLlAKUMN-REZH4djStK-QBOsK9UoerIQkYQ0ooHBrNkqtH-GrWyv8RzFyiBUgJh52tiVvMuyf0VnYreB_3rcmHwB69_i-fK-HeVaPoF_cKnEM2ZXnTeHSrdHU/s1600/romain_saha.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_0vKFdANNh-jTOyYI5uOLlAKUMN-REZH4djStK-QBOsK9UoerIQkYQ0ooHBrNkqtH-GrWyv8RzFyiBUgJh52tiVvMuyf0VnYreB_3rcmHwB69_i-fK-HeVaPoF_cKnEM2ZXnTeHSrdHU/s1600/romain_saha.jpg" /></a></div>At CES this year, our own Andy Gryc had a chance to sit down with Tom Conrad, CTO at Pandora, a long-time QNX CAR platform partner. Pandora is already in 85 vehicle models today and continues to grow their footprint, not only in automotive but in consumer as well. <br /><br />Take a couple minutes to hear Tom's perspective on standardizing on HTML5 across markets and to get a glimpse of the future of Internet radio in automotive. And make sure you watch the whole thing — there's some fun outtakes at the end.<br /><br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/p2nQUM6Yya4?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />

Pandora interview: Using HTML5 to deliver content to the car

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Creating HTML5 apps for the car

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEMqLMG4uRYIBGHO_3EDY2l-iA8U4UATEJI14VuO7seVxXDG0UBieY2wn8FytPx2bk10ZjtSCLZRunqR3XZRomweUnUPM2-xOZeELd-4odUyKQVZyLg5ILBybAS3eG1gRSNIWqDsm2GNM/s1600/andy_gryc.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEMqLMG4uRYIBGHO_3EDY2l-iA8U4UATEJI14VuO7seVxXDG0UBieY2wn8FytPx2bk10ZjtSCLZRunqR3XZRomweUnUPM2-xOZeELd-4odUyKQVZyLg5ILBybAS3eG1gRSNIWqDsm2GNM/s1600/andy_gryc.jpg" /></a></div>Adding a downloadable app capability to the car isn't just a matter of bolting consumer-grade technology onto an automotive hardware platform, dusting your hands, and calling it a day.<br /><br />Apps should be integrated into the vehicle experience, which means they need access to vehicle resources. But you must carefully control that access: the apps should be isolated in their own environment to protect the rest of the car software. Most of all, the apps need to conform to safe driving practices, which typically entails a re-write of the user interface.<br /><br />Still, we should leverage as much as possible from the mobile world. That’s where the real innovation happens; the mobile community provides a much bigger pool of fresh ideas than automakers could ever build by themselves. And the best tools and libraries are focused on mobile development. <br /><br />That’s why QNX Software Systems is building the best of both: an application tool that draws heavily from mobile, but is adapted to the car. It's provisionally named the HTML5 SDK for the <a href="http://www.qnx.com/products/qnxcar/index.html">QNX CAR application platform</a> and, while it isn't yet available to the public, beta versions are now available for QNX CAR platform customers.<br /><br />For a preview of what we’ll be rolling out, check out this video:<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/n0RCqchiPRc?rel=0" width="560"></iframe><br /><br /><br />

Creating HTML5 apps for the car

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First look: HTML5 SDK for the QNX CAR platform

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF70n8XEFXd-WCle6B_N5zb1HOWT6A2287uJL5IptS__jCjo-sMeLzRAv-qrES7Wnj9wEZiA4bLTxtEtJfmSDnchUPzbOIeuufEo685uCHndKAp_EbWo2F-A2ermk7zqXoap_GTGgnSh0/s1600/paul_leroux_photo_crop_v3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:right; float:right; margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="124" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF70n8XEFXd-WCle6B_N5zb1HOWT6A2287uJL5IptS__jCjo-sMeLzRAv-qrES7Wnj9wEZiA4bLTxtEtJfmSDnchUPzbOIeuufEo685uCHndKAp_EbWo2F-A2ermk7zqXoap_GTGgnSh0/s400/paul_leroux_photo_crop_v3.jpg" width="87" /></a>Whenever I hear the word “ripple,” I think of ice cream: butterscotch ripple, chocolate ripple, lemon ripple, and (yum) strawberry ripple. Well, the video I'm about to show you isn’t about ice cream, but it is about something that’s just as cool and just as sweet: the Ripple mobile environment emulator.<br /><br />Ripple already supports multiple platforms, such as BlackBerry 10 and Apache Cordova, allowing developers to preview how their apps will look and function on a variety of mobile devices. And now, thanks to extensions provided by the <a href="http://www.qnx.com/products/qnxcar/index.html">QNX CAR</a> development team, it will also emulate how an app looks and performs in a vehicle infotainment system. <br /><br />Simply put, the same tool that helps app developers target mobile platforms will also help them target the car.<br /><br />QNX Software Systems will offer this modded version of Ripple as part of the <a href="http://www.qnx.com/news/pr_5309_2.html">HTML5 SDK for the QNX CAR platform</a>. The goal of the SDK is simple: to help mobile developers and automakers work together on creating apps for in-vehicle infotainment systems.<br /><br />If you’re a developer, you’ll be able to use the Ripple emulator and its associated Web Inspector to perform JavaScript debugging, HTML DOM inspection, automated testing, and screen-resolution emulation, all from the convenience of a web browser. You’ll also be able to modify your apps and view the results without having to recompile — simply edit your source code and hit refresh in the browser. You’ll even be able to perform remote debugging on the evaluation board or final hardware used by the automaker, again from the same browser environment.<br /><br />Enough from me. Let’s get the complete scoop from my colleague Andy Gryc:<br /><br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/n0RCqchiPRc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />

First look: HTML5 SDK for the QNX CAR platform

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Designing interfaces from the outside in

<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilE-fzF4aHr43I4C4B7ADcfOfyqUo138zCpAcup3Vg-o_fSEmlzW6ZsuY6WLeCXyFrJwpgsXCGBOzXy7YPOrPqUecngxY4BlhuhE8O935cTCDTf_AeEbWx8TczSDFtuzuU3hifz_Acq3U/s1600/nancy_young.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilE-fzF4aHr43I4C4B7ADcfOfyqUo138zCpAcup3Vg-o_fSEmlzW6ZsuY6WLeCXyFrJwpgsXCGBOzXy7YPOrPqUecngxY4BlhuhE8O935cTCDTf_AeEbWx8TczSDFtuzuU3hifz_Acq3U/s1600/nancy_young.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-size: small;">User interfaces are a pet peeve of mine.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I’m one of those people whose VCR always blinked 12:00. Not because I couldn’t figure it out but because I resented that I had to.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Basically, I have neither the time nor the inclination to read manuals. If I’m paying good money for a consumer-facing product then it better not require an engineering degree to use it.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Not surprisingly, then, I think UI design is every bit as important as product; maybe even more so. Because if your user experience sucks, make no mistake; I will be walking and talking to your competitors.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It wasn’t until I entered the glamorous world of software development that I came to the following conclusion: Interfaces are complicated because development tools require an engineer (or similarly brilliant individual) to use them. </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of course this is a sweeping statement and I’ll gladly debate it but the point is this: Someone with unique skills and knowledge about user-centric design should be creating interfaces. Not someone who knows the product from the inside out.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I know in a traditional model this can create a lot of churn but companies like Crank Software have come up with a way to decouple the roles of embedded engineer and UI designer, allowing them to work in parallel while focusing on their individual core competencies.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I spoke to several members of the <a href="http://qnxauto.blogspot.ca/search/label/Concept%20team">QNX concept development team</a> when they were heavily embroiled in creating the latest technology concept car. It was<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>obvious when talking to the engineers and the UI designers that <a href="http://www.cranksoftware.com/products/crank_storyboard_suite.php">Crank’s Storyboard</a> made both jobs that much easier and the process a whole lot quicker. The end result, achieved in a very short time frame, speaks for itself.</span></div><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/OV6hSAyck9c" width="560"></iframe><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is great news for people like me who curse like sailors whenever using a remote, microwave, GPS, treadmill, camera, and so on. Indeed, I'm counting on teams like QNX and Crank to ensure the digital car is an enjoyable and intuitive  experience. If not, I do know who I'm gonna call.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>

Designing interfaces from the outside in

User interfaces are a pet peeve of mine. I’m one of those people whose VCR always blinked 12:00. Not because I couldn’t figure it out but be...

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