Blackberry is interested in car

The Canadian firm BlackBerry introduced new software for the management of computer systems and the piloting of cars.
The emphasis is on security with its hypervisor QNX Hypervisor 2.0, based on the QNX SDP 7.0 operating system. It will make it possible to partition the different execution environments.

Thus, all systems run independently on the same electronic component. A failure of the secondary module will not affect critical systems such as brake or accelerator control. "Think of a house, and a burglar entering a room. So, even if the burglar enters this room, the door is locked, he can not get out of that room. And even if it can enter the corridor, the other rooms are locked, "says John Wall, director of BlackBerry at Reuters.

According to BlackBerry, this hypervisor generation would equip several vehicles currently under development and the operating system, QNX, is embedded on more than 60 million cars. Demand for this type of software is expected to increase while manufacturers are working on standalone models. A forecast that many financial players share since the price of BlackBerry shares has increased 63% since the end of March with the arrival of offers around the QNX.