Possibly the most involved hack ever, the Java Car was a delightful romp through Java land, mobility, wireless, hardware prototyping and just plain fun!
The project started out with Behfar Razavi, my partner in crime in the Sun IT Skunkworks, falling in love with the Saturn EV1 electric car. Well, we were investigating mobility at the time, so decided “What the heck, this thing is really mobile”, so got one and started filling it with servers and Java.
The project was an immense success, getting Sun involved with auto manufacturers and introducing us to an entire new industry. We became anthropologists, helping the computer tribe meet the car tribe. The project went through three revisions, the last being done within Sun’s new Java technology group.
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