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ROSA has joined the Steering Committee of Automotive Grade Linux

Posted Dec 7, 2012 9:09 UTC (Fri) by Im26 (subscriber, #48749)
In reply to: ROSA has joined the Steering Committee of Automotive Grade Linux by mathstuf
Parent article: ROSA has joined the Steering Committee of Automotive Grade Linux

If Microsoft made cars...

3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull over to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.

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Posted Dec 7, 2012 17:06 UTC (Fri) by mattdm (guest, #18) [Link]

> 3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull over to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.

This is, in fact, the behavior of many older MBTA busses in Boston. Just sayin'.

ROSA has joined the Steering Committee of Automotive Grade Linux

Posted Dec 7, 2012 18:41 UTC (Fri) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Ha.

I actually had this very problem with a Ford rental car. It had "Microsoft Sync" for its infotaiment system and it suddenly started to output very loud white noise over the audio system while I was on a freeway. And it wasn't responding to volume controls.

However, simply stopping the car and turning it off didn't help. I had to go online, find the location of fusebox, and pull the fuse to hard-reset the infotaiment system.

ROSA has joined the Steering Committee of Automotive Grade Linux

Posted Dec 7, 2012 18:58 UTC (Fri) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

> However, simply stopping the car and turning it off didn't help.

Did you try turning the car off while it wasn't stopped? The GP's instructions stated that you had to "pull over to the side of the road". There's no mention that the car should be at rest. I'm sure it's a common oversight.