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When a Power PC is perfectly capable for a MARS rover missions, I dont see any reason why they must run Snapdragons. Unless some evil company, starts ditching physical controls or starts shoving Ads into Speedometer. And everyone follows.

Im thankful that automobile tech didn’t discover electron yet. Imagine your speedometer consuming 200mb of ram.



Speaking from experience, I can tell you automakers are already shipping vehicles that some Infotainment apps are web technologies. Not electron, but a similar system to run an encapsulated web page.

I’m doubtful of the cluster being run by a browser engine though.


Mazda has been using Opera running JS for their infotainment since 2014...


> Im thankful that automobile tech didn’t discover electron yet.

Too late. I am well aware of a few car dashboard clients using it to their own detriment (imaging gluing CanBus I/O to electron.)


Don't give them ideas!


Too late: https://gizmodo.com/get-ready-for-in-car-ads-1846888390




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