It'd be neat if they could come to some sort of a standard on this so that its an open, reviewable piece of software that handles the crypto side of things and

It'd be neat if they could come to some sort of a standard on this so that its an open, reviewable piece of software that handles the crypto side of things and then passes that off and they (the Automakers) can "customize" the rest of the software all they want. Somewhat (but also not at all) like a more advanced ODBII[0] [0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-board_diagnostics#OBD-II http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-board_diagnostics#OBD-II