Thanks to the ongoing Maker and open source revolution, and the overwhelming success of Android, large corporations are warming up to the idea of opening their products up to hacking. And, though it’s one thing to see consumers developing apps for their phones, it’s something else entirely for an auto manufacturer to let people create mods for the computers in their cars. But that’s just what Ford’s done with OpenXC, a hardware module that allows Ford drivers to access the data in their cars’ internal networks via bluetooth and to use that data however they please with their own Android apps.…
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