Honda to Team up with Toyota and Nissan on Electronics Software Standardization
Last month Toyota and Nissan announced a cooperative effort for the development of standardized electronics software, meant to reduce costs on car componentry that is becoming more expensive to develop year after year (see automotive news archive for Sep 13, 2004: Toyota and Nissan Join Forces to Standardize Automotive Electronic Software). This makes a great deal of sense being that automakers only show their differences when it comes to electronic interfaces, buttons, switches and knobs, not the software behind them.