CVI Initiative Aims to Simplify Connected-Car Language “The system is so large and full of independently sourced parts, with numerous teams writing their own code, the industry simply needs a common language for all of these things,” says Gunnar Andersson, development lead at the Genivi Alliance.
If you’ve ever towed a camper or a trailer full of wood, you have relied, in part, on a set of standards that helped define the simple trailer hitch.
Companies each make their own trailers, but the whole system functions because they all can connect to a standard-size hitch. That’s the idea behind the Common Vehicle Interface Initiative, which the Genivi Cloud and Connected Services project is working to establish for the data, interfaces and services in future connected vehicles.