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LCA2009: geeking your ride
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| Known for his software work - he runs a web development company called
| Internet Vision Technologies and is a developer for the free Debian GNU/Linux
| project - back in 1990, Oxer was very much into auto electronics.
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| Mainly working with rotary-powered vehicles at the time, one of the more
| successful products he developed was a turbo timer that kept cars fitted with
| aftermarket turbochargers running for a few minutes after the ignition was
| turned off.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/22567/1090/
Recent:
Caterham Teams Up with Project Splitwheel to Create First-Ever Open-Source Car
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| Conceived of as a similar proposition to open-source software and
| user-moderated resources like Wikipedia, Project Splitwheel will give
| automotive enthusiasts of all stripes unprecedented influence on the design
| of a car. The project is open to anyone who cares to join, regardless of
| their background in cars, design or engineering, or their location in the
| world. Users will collaborate through the forums on the Project Splitwheel
| Web site and submit their suggestions and designs there for peer review.
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http://wot.motortrend.com/6339675/future/caterham-teams-up-with-project-splitwheel-to-create-first-ever-open-source-car/index.html
BMW seeking partners for open-source car software platform
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| At the Convergence 2008 conference on automotive electronics yesterday, BMW
| revealed it is looking for partners as it pursues an open-source car
| computing platform. The German company is enthusiastic about the potential
| for such an open-source system's potential to keep up with the rapid advances
| in technology and features in the multimedia and digital entertainment areas.
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http://www.motorauthority.com/bmw-seeking-partners-for-open-source-car-software-platform.html
BMW Presents Open Source Telematics Protocol
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| BMW has joined forces with telematics service providers Connexis LLC and
| WirelessCar to establish a more stable and uniform interface infrastructure
| for delivering end-to-end telematics services.
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http://www.autospectator.com/cars/telematics/0036128-bmw-presents-open-source-telematics-protocol
Related:
OSMB: OScar, the Open Source car
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| The first to be presented was the Open Source car called OScar.
| For eight years, a community that has grown to far over 1,000
| people has been working on the development of a car based on
| Open Source, though the project's founder Markus stressed that
| the goal is development, not production. The automotive industry
| has, however, already showed interest in the concept.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/84180/from/rss09
Open-Source Car Project Gears Up
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| The open-source movement responsible for software like Linux and
| Mozilla's Web browser, Firefox, is proving contagious: A German
| entrepreneur is applying the same approach to automobile design.
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http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/12/18/opencar_tec.html?category=technology&guid=20061218110030
http://tinyurl.com/ucuws
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