The AI era has not reduced the needs for standards.
In fact, there is a pressing need for new standards and new kinds of standards to respond to the huge changes in the way software is built, how it runs, and how it is used.
OpenAuto presents a reference implementation of an MCP App that is ready to be customized for an OEM brand and quickly deployed for use within ChatGPT. The reference implementation is itself a new form of standard and a development accelerator.