Sears announced that its Show Your Way mobile app, lets people pick up their Sears order with in 5 minutes without leaving their cars for
Let’s see the latest announcements for AUTO Connected Car readers from the Chicago Auto Show.
Hyundai America announced the enhanced Blue Link system Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January. Today, Hyundai announced the same Google location search will be part of an update for 500,000 Hyundai owners with the previous version of Blue Link. It offers voice Google search and navigation along with Google Glass integration.
Here’s an easy inexpensive way to connect to the data in car on Android via Bluetooth. Dash claims it can “make any car, a smart car.”
Dash is similar to Automatic, using Bluetooth and a connection to the OBD-II port to gather driving information and make suggestions. Automatic, however, currently only works with iPhone(Android coming soon) while Dash works with Android and will be available for iPhone in the future.
Gen Y car buyers want connected cars with safety feature reported Deloitte LLP. Although Gen Y youth see car ownership as less important for mobility
Audi’s new Smart City Traffic Light Assistance tell you when the traffic light will turn green.
Traffic Light Assist or TLA uses the car’s network connection, GPS and municipal traffic control information. It displays a countdown timer in the dash to show how many seconds there are before the light changes.
The European Union has a been secretly working with Police to implement remote auto engine-off or kill switch for cars.
The Telegraph reported that the EU is working on secret remote-stopping technology that was found in confidential documents from a EU police committee.
We may be driving more safely in the future when cars connect to each other. The U.S. government is looking into cars, buses and trucks communicate to each other and to the Department of Transportation to cut down on accidents, gas consumption and speeding. After reviewing research, the government will work on laws to require vehicle data connections in future models.
It’s called Vehicle-to-Vehicle communication in which vehicles talk to each other. It’s sort of like data saying to your car, “I’m over here traveling a 30 mph and you’re going 25 mph, get ready for a fender bender,” or “Watch out the drunk driving this car is going to run the stop sign!”
Motorola has filed a patent for connected car commuters. Motorola’s patent will identify road hazards, take photos of them and them then send the problems to drivers en route behind the car using the technology.
The patent was filed by Motorola Mobility that is now owned by Lennovo. It is not clear if Google now owns the patent or Lennovo.
The patent is titled “Inter-Vehicle Alert System with Nagable Video Look Ahead”
PubNub announced its Connected Car Solution Kit or developers to deliver , real-time transportation management and dispatch app for taxi, fleet management and delivery services.
PubNub detects and connects dropped connections, with all messages tracked and time-stamped to the nearest nanosecond to ensure no loss of data. PubNub reports that platform insures offers real-time data.
Telenav partnered with Red Bend Software to provide over-the-air (OTA) map and point of interest (POIs) updates to Scout for Cars. Telenav Scout comes in two forms Scout for Cars Built In or Brought In.
Telenav makes navigation products for Ford, Delphi, Sony and QNX Car Applications Platform
Telenav, Inc reported that has acquired skobbler, a navigation app company with the highly rated OpenStreetMap (OSM)-based GPS navigation apps. This could make Telenav maps faster to upgrade than Google maps.
After a long hiatus, Chevrolet has once again begun building Stingray Corvettes, and the 2015 model may not be known for its great looks but for the Performance Data Recorder (PDR).