Imagine a car dashboard infotainment system that’s as open as your PC or smartphone, yet still masking the electronic throttle, brakes, and steering behind a firewall so your device doesn’t crash (in the automotive sense).
That’s the OpenXC platform collaboration announced Monday by Ford and Bug Labs at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference.



While newer cars have certainly become more sophisticated with technologies like Microsoft’s Sync, we’ve always dreame