Ford’s open source OpenXC platform as gateway to future high tech car gizmos

“Ford is positioning OpenXC as a channel for collaboration
between Ford and 3rd party application developers. If “your car is
as easy to program as your smartphone,” it stands to reason that
future cars could generate as much innovation and excitement as
todays smartphones are generating.

“The company announced last week they were making the OpenXC
source code available, in beta form, to developers and universities
around the world. Ford demonstrated a sample third-party mobile app
created with the OpenXC toolkit at NASSCOM India Leadership Summit,
held last week in Mumbai India. At NASSCOM the message was to not
only open Ford’s vehicles for 3rd party applications, but to enable
development of market-specific applications for each country. The
OpenXC source code is expected to be opened to the public via
repositories on github, and documentation is available today on the
openxcplatform website. “

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