Running Raspberry Pi natively in a Honda Civic

A very strange piece, as other have observed.

My favorite part was:

Getting a homebrew Raspberry Pi interface to be usable while driving would take some finagling, as Gold said the Honda Civic would not show HDMI input unless the car was in Park. But give gearheads and Linux geeks enough time, and they’d figure out a way around that constraint. Once that obstacle is overcome, the sky’s the limit. (Insert obligatory safety warnings about not streaming movies while driving here.)

So, they realize the car is designed by, one assumes, people who know something about designing cars, but still just take it for granted that it's desirable to use a full-blown computer on a home-grown interface while driving a car. Why? In many countries you're not even allowed, by law, to use a cellphone while driving. Doesn't that make some kind of sense? Why would you make it sound like some kind of silly restriction, best defeated? Aargh. I don't want to die because some random "gearhead" is fiddling with his home-built GUI, trying to show a movie, while driving.

I'm as much of a Linux geek as the next guy, but I still don't think it sounds like a good idea to use a computer while driving.

Yeah, but it's more interesting than reading an (n+1)th opinion on Oculus/FB or another angry, well-paid engineer that doesn't understand the difference between no-recruit and no-hire policies.

I have an old car (no HDMI or anything! It doesn't even have an automatic transmission) so this kind of gets my hacker juices flowing in a way that would have otherwise like 1) gps + wireless addones & google maps in some creative way 2) figure out how to attach a couple of cmoses on it and create a 360 degree display.

edit: or infrared cameras, that could be fun. That said, the article itself is severely lacking.

edit: strawberry pie :) ok, that's funny.

I do agree, and it did provoke in me some genuinely interesting ideas for a car + rpi, I just got annoyed by the breathlessly impressed tone of the reporter!

It's like I showed my Mum what I could do with my rpi and she wanted to impress her friends with this strawberry pie computerjingo - not good tech journalism.

A much more interesting talk from this year's QCon London by Simon Ritter: http://qconlondon.com/dl/qcon-london-2014/slides/SimonRitter...

A lot of cars these days are coming with complicated touch screen displays, shockingly. Can't say that a home-built GUI would be any worse than my friend's aftermarket Pioneer with tiny on screen buttons. I haven't looked at car stereos in probably 5 years, but I'm sure this still is the case. Aftermarket screens required you to wire up to the emergency brake, instead people just grounded it out to the car frame and it worked while driving.