“… the five-company Automotive Multimedia Interface
Collaboration (AMIC) has voted to propose Java as an API standard
for in-car multimedia systems and has appointed Sun Microsystems
and IBM as development partners…”
“Ford, Daimler-Chrysler, General Motors, Renault, and Toyota
formed AMIC in October and agreed at the time to work on
establishing the basic architecture for the in-car multimedia
system, standardizing an API and hardware peripheral interfaces,
and determining requirements for bus protocols and gateways…”
“AMIC representatives said they decided to employ Java because
they thought it essential to provide a common API platform that
would not be tied to a specific operating system or CPU…”