Operating systems are enabling manufacturers to rethink the car. — Image by macrovector on Freepik
BERLIN: Everyone can name an operating system from a computer or smartphone – but what about a car? Few of us realise that we’ve technically been driving with them since the first electronic control units (ECUs) in the early 1970s.
More comfort and safety functions then led to more and more control units. Since the introduction of the so-called CAN (Controller Area Network) bus system in the early 1990s, control units can be networked with each other.
