Does this actually mean anything?

I read this twice, it sounds like I should understand it, but I do not.:numbness:

Is it for real, is it gibberish, have I had another TIA? :numbness:

Infotainment? :numbness:
:emptiness:

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Gone are the days of tablets and chalk and eye spy on the horse and cart Robin ;) ....its all touchscreen 100% online connectivity these days apparently..............I wouldn't know as I've a 10 yr old Ford :)

Hi Robin,

I'm afraid Infotainment is now a well established word in the Automotive industry. Obviously an amalgamation of information and entertainment - e.g. touchscreen showing heater controls or traffic information, together with access to radio, DAB, CD, Bluetooth music from your phone, internet and other entertainment.

ECU is the engine brain
CAN is the CANbus which is a sort of network on the car where different systems talk to each other

I would argue there are now more man-hours spent developing software and hardware for cars than the metal bits.

I just have this nagging feeling that I should be able to work out what this thing they are trying to sell me actually does.

Are you a car mechanic? I guess it is an ECU reading programming tool. So you can get diagnostic info, program new keys and that sort of thing. Since cars are always updating the tech inside you need a tool that supports it.

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Originally Posted by Robin Hewitt

I read this twice, it sounds like I should understand it, but I do not.:numbness:

Is it for real, is it gibberish, have I had another TIA? :numbness:

Infotainment? :numbness:
:emptiness:

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What's not to understand Robin? ECU programming is so simple that my two year old Grandson can do it ! :whistle:

One wonders if even the people writing it know what all the acronyms mean.

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What's not to understand Robin? ECU programming is so simple that my two year old Grandson can do it ! :whistle:

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It frustrates me when people refer to programming the motor drive in the electric motorbike I'm working on, as programming an ECU. It is not an ECU (it's an FPGA) - the whole point is that we have a motor, not an engine!

This is the TLA culture, I remember reading an IBM technical manual in the eighties. It gave the meaning by using the full words on first appearance, after that the acronym was used. It went from heavy to unreadable in one page. There was no glossary of acronyms.

TTFN,

Rob

** TLA = Three Letter Acronym

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It is not an ECU (it's an FPGA)

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FPGA I can understand, I had a protracted love affair with the 22V10 :beer:

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Originally Posted by cropwell

This is the TLA culture, I remember reading an IBM technical manual in the eighties. It gave the meaning by using the full words on first appearance, after that the acronym was used. It went from heavy to unreadable in one page. There was no glossary of acronyms.

TTFN,

Rob

** TLA = Three Letter Acronym

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I used to work for Digital, back when they still existed, and that was also a hotbed of TLAs. In the end, they ran out of TLAs and moved to ETLAs - Extended TLAs...