vehicle
Amazon’s Echo Auto Assistant: Legacy vehicle retrofit-relevant
Remember my April 2023 teardown of Spotify’s now-defunct Car Thing? Ditch the touchscreen LCD, broaden functionality and that’s Amazon’s Echo Auto in a nutshell: Shown here and introduced in mid-2019 is the first-generation version of the product, which I’ll be tearing down today. It originally sold for $49.99 but was initially promo-priced at half that…
How to a wirelessly upgraded a software-defined vehicle (SDV)
In-vehicle systems have massively grown in complexity with more installed speakers, microphones, cameras, displays, and compute burden to process the necessary information and provide the proper, often time-sensitive output. The unfortunate side effect of this complexity is the massive increase in ECUs and subsequent cabling to and from its allocated subsystem like engine, powertrain, and…