French frolics for Chromium browser on Android Automotive
Browser-maker Vivaldi has added Renault to the list of users for the Android Automotive OS version of its eponymous web renderer. The company had already brought the Chromium-based browser to Polestar 2 electric vehicles at the end of 2021, so its arrival in another Android Automotive OS car was not entirely a surprise. In this instance it is the big screen of the Megane E-Tech Electric on the receiving end, as well as the Austral and pretty much all future cars featuring the OpenR Link system. Renault is betting big on OpenR, and described it as „seven times smoother to use than the previous generation.“
It isn’t only the bet that is big; the system itself (on the Megane E-Tech at least) comprises a vertical 12-inch screen on the center console and horizontal 12.
