Yesterday, the California Department of Motor Vehicles started issuing permits to car makers to test self-driving autonomous cars on roads in California . Audi was the first to get a permit, while Google is expected to have the highest number of autonomous vehicles (AVs) with a total of twenty-five. Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen have two registered autonomous vehicles each. There are small number of other companies applying.
There was a lot hoopla this summer over the news that some parents had accidentally left children in child seats in the heat although there is technology to remind parents. For National Child Passenger Safety Week (Sept. 14-20), Safe Kids Worldwide released a study that showed nine out of 10 parents take children out of car booster seats before they are tall enough.
The study was partially funded by the GM Foundation that is committed to its partnership with Safe Kids and sponsoring events this week.
Automatic is working Ford to enhance the SYNC systems on Ford vehicles to deliver features from the Automatic platform. The first app for iOS 8 only will be in the App store next week and support Siri.
Automatic users in SYNC-equipped cars will be able to talk to Apple’s Siri on iPhones via the steering wheel button.
AT&T annouced a single SIM solution that meets the GSMA specifications for multi-profile SIMs that is compatible with many wireless carriers throughout the world.
After the Ford Sync development conference at Super Mobility Week, comes Uplinq the Qualcomm developer conference in San Francisco, this week. It’s no surprise that Qualcomm wants to get its tech into cars, Formula E cars with Qualcomm Halo Wireless EV Charging at the FIA Formula E.
In a video, Edward Van Boeheemen inventor of Halo in a speeding BMW i8 is asked questions by Pat Kusbel with Qualcomm’s Automotive Solution, on race track by Formula E driver Nelson Piquet Jr.
The finalists were announced for the Ford App contest in Las Vegas, during Super Mobility week. Here is list of the winners who will come to Los Angeles for Connected Car Expo at the LA Auto Show. We were hoping that there would be more solutions for Los Angeles’ parking quagmire.
Here are the finalists. Our Connected Car Expo rep said that they will be preparing a news release on Monday:
The Connected Car Expo premiered its CTIA Super Mobility Week presence. There were several announcements and connected car related news. AT&T, GM and Ford had
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CTIA Mobility Week a week after AT&T announced it latest connected car platform, AT&T ‘s Ralp de la Vega along with a panel of AT&T connected car fans, discussed how important connected cars are to the Wireless industry.
de la Vega noted that Strategy Analytics estimates that nearly 10 million 4-wheeled smartphones in the form of connected cars will be on the road in a few years. He also reported that AT&T studies show people prefer a shared family data plan that lets them to share data for many devices, and customers want to be able to add their cars to their rate plans.
TomTom announced that Jeep will integrate TomTom’s turn-by-turn navigation and maps into the Uconnect 5″ Radio Nav infotainment system of the new Jeep Renegade line.
At the Intellegent Transport Systems Conference in Detroit GM is demonstrating the a self-driving version of the EN-V 2.0, slow-driving petite car designed for the most congested cities.
The Chevrolet Electric Networked-Vehicle (EN-V) 2.0 has the latest intelligent and connected automotive technologies including Lidar and V2X to for automated, low-speed electric driving LSV.
While some car makers have delayed the release of Apple CarPlay for iPhone 5/5c/5S with Hyundai on target, Ferrari delivered the first car in the world with Apple’s CarPlay on September 8.
The first Ferrari FF with CarPlay was delivered to a buyer in Italy. The delivery was a day before the announcement of the new iPhone 6 and 6+.
Connected Car Expo (CCE) announced speakers, seminars and news for the fall show during the LA Auto Show’s press/media days November 18-20, in Los Angeles, California.
The following automakers will show their technology including: