The GENIVI Alliance, an automotive and consumer electronics industry association driving the development and adoption of an open in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) reference platform, will focus on accelerating the process of defining APIs for HTML5 web applications to interface to the hardware of the car, vehicle bus interfaces, etc.

W3C’s Automotive and Web Platform Business Group, launched in February, convenes developers, automotive manufacturers and suppliers, browser vendors, operators and others to discuss how to enhance driving, safety and passenger entertainment with the Open Web Platform.

The HTML5 Auto API is imperative to enable the open source IVI community to rapidly and easily prototype, test and produce innovative user experience concepts. The power of a full and complete abstracted application interface to enable the reading of all signal and sensor data from a vehicle should not be underestimated.

—Matt Jones, senior technical specialist at Jaguar Land Rover

HTML5 API for automotive promises to become a widely used set of technologies to build applications across platforms. In time, these applications could quickly be adapted from tablets to smart phones to cars. Eventually it will be the turning point as to when developers will start being able to create new concepts for the vehicle rapidly in a way that is standardized across multiple brands, the alliance suggested.

As vehicles are becoming connected, it is important for automotive industry to benefit from world web standards adapted to cars, in order to simplify exchanges with the cloud and make final customer enjoy its digital life onboard.

—Philippe Gicquel, general manager for Cockpit, Safety, Infotainment EE Modules at PSA Peugeot Citroën

The GENIVI Alliance is a non-profit industry association the mission of which is to drive the broad adoption of an In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) open source development platform.