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Not Blackberry the phone but Blackberry the company and it's real time operating system QNX.

QNX is an excellent RTOS and is already used in cars, appliances, machinery, and industry. QNX also has a serious R&D initiative for cars.

So it's no surprise that Ford is considering it. There's off the shelf products that Ford could purchase and drop into a dash tomorrow.

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QNX (which BB bought a few years ago) has a QNX Car Platform, for example here is a press release with some details on it from last year. http://www.qnx.com/news/pr_5602_1.html So they might be using the car platform, but as the article doesn't mention explicitly mention it they could just be using the QNX OS and writing their own thing on top.

Videos of recent demo cars QNX showed off at CES: CES 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl_uVHg_SSs CES 2014 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MbXvyCTVV0

Disclaimer: I used to work for RIM

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