James Gosling: on the Java Road
Wednesday November 12, 2008
The LincVolt lives!
At JavaOne 2007, Neil Young gave an impassioned talk about why BluRay matters to artists. He ended the talk with a few comments about a project he was starting to take a classic Detroit monster (a 1959 Lincoln Continental) and turn it into an X-Prize capable hybrid electric car. There was more than a little scepticism in the audience, but he did it, and he calls it the LincVolt. And he
brought it to Sun in Menlo Park to show it off. Piles of realtime Java code under the hood.
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As a great fan of Neil Young (Neil, not Neal! ;-) ) and an enthusiast Java developer I find it very amusing how Neil and Java come together :-)
Posted by Roman Kennke on November 12, 2008 at 08:09 AM PST #
Nice to see that the car is a reality.
P.S., GM != Lincoln
Posted by Paedagogus on November 12, 2008 at 08:33 AM PST #
Lincoln is part of the Ford family, I believe.
Posted by Dave on November 12, 2008 at 09:25 AM PST #
Could you please ask Mr. Young to re-create the interface such that the physical keyboard be totally abandoned?
He could draw inspiration from LCARS[1] and the iPhone.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCARS
Posted by Mayuresh Kathe on November 13, 2008 at 07:10 AM PST #
Niel Young doesn't actually program Java & build electric cars. He hired people to do it & led the team of course.
Posted by x on November 14, 2008 at 02:24 PM PST #
@ x
Oh, alright, I saw the accompanying pic to the post, where he's shown fiddling with the keyboard, thought him to be a co-developer :-)
Posted by Mayuresh Kathe on November 16, 2008 at 02:03 AM PST #