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Looking backwards, the automobile of today looks almost superintelligent. While some of us may have expected (read: hoped for) the flying car by 2013 and, sure, the internal combustion engine still...
View ArticleGoogle Announces Open Automotive Alliance To Drive Android Into Connected Cars
Google is hoping to do it again with Android — and cars. The 2007 Open Handset Alliance helped drive Google’s mobile OS from new-kid-on-the-block to dominant force in smartphones. Today, the company...
View ArticleTesla Drivers Are Using Their In-Dash Browser To Keep Up With The News,...
What are Tesla owners actually doing with their in-car web browsers? That’s the question that ad measurement and targeting company Quantcast tried to answer with some just-released data. Apparently,...
View ArticleAfter Exiting Phones, Nokia Launches $100M Fund To Drive Connected Cars
Nokia has launched a new $100 million investment fund focused on connected cars, as the 150-year-old company seeks to pull off its latest reinvention trick. The fund will be managed by Nokia’s venture...
View ArticleThe Race To Frictionless Parking
Parking. It’s an issue that impacts everyone who owns a car. People might not think about it or talk about it, but it certainly can be one of those daily frustrations that ignites stress....
View ArticleTech Innovations That Will Make You Want To Live In Your Car
America has a well-known love affair with the open road — and it’s a good thing, because we’re also known for spending a lot of time in our cars. According to DOT statistics, the average driver logs...
View ArticleThe Cloud-Connected Car Drives IoT Monetization
The car is well on its way to becoming the most sophisticated mobile device in the Internet of Things (IoT), or, to use a phrase that’s more to the point, the Monetization of Things™ (MoT). Linked to...
View ArticleSecurity And Privacy Standards Are Critical To The Success Of Connected Cars
The automotive industry is rapidly evolving to transform the car from a simple mode of transport to a personalized information hub: There will be an estimated 220 million connected cars on the road...
View ArticleEven your connected car will need antivirus software
Connected cars can talk to each other (vehicle-to-vehicle, or V2V), and they’re starting to be able to talk to the city they’re driving around (vehicle-to-infrastructure, or V2I). That also means...
View ArticleTrapTap maps speed traps and more
TrapTap, which has raised over $200,000 on Kickstarter with about a week to go, alerts drivers to speed traps, school zones, speed zones, and red light cameras by blinking red, green, or blue. But...
View ArticleHow do you truly secure the connected car?
We’ve become accustomed to staying connected whenever and wherever we are. All this connectivity is great, but it has also blinded us to the associated risks of being online at all times. Connected...
View ArticleVerizon buys Telogis to drive deeper into the connected vehicle market
With a lot of tech companies and automakers staking their claims in the connected car space, now there are signs that others are looking to move in, too. Today, telecoms giant Verizon announced that...
View ArticleThe last driver license holder
Say hello to Liam. He recently celebrated his first birthday. Not only is he a cutie, he is the last person to get a driver license. Impossible? Not in your lifetime? I don’t know if Liam will be the...
View ArticleIn Japan, Priuses can talk to other Priuses
While the US waits to get Super Cruise in Cadillacs next year, Toyota has already rolled out a pretty robust V2V, or vehicle-to-vehicle, system in three models available in Japan. The latest version...
View ArticleThe biggest threat facing connected autonomous vehicles is cybersecurity
Connected, autonomous vehicles are around the corner. Many of the most innovative and deep-pocketed companies in the world are racing to bring them to market — and for good reason: the economic and...
View ArticleHow connected cars are turning into revenue-generating machines
History repeats herself, but she mumbles. Most of the time we can only in retrospect discern what she was trying to say. Sometimes, though, history’s intent is clear. That’s where we stand with the...
View ArticleDetroit’s music chops and auto shops could drive connected-car entertainment
On a recent podcast called “The Watch,” one of the hosts made a joke about “grabbing the aux cord” in a friend’s car to play new music. When self-driving cars could be whizzing us around cities in the...
View ArticleAria Systems launches automotive recurring revenue platform
Aria Systems is bringing together the chocolate of usage- and subscription-based revenue opportunities with the peanut butter of increasingly connected automotive systems. The resulting candy (to...
View ArticleThe new world of mobility
The race to rule the autonomous car market is on. Google, Ford and now Uber have stepped up to the challenge, each with their own vision and ambitions as to what a driverless world will look like....
View ArticleThe rise of new automotive companies
The Cité de l’Automobile in Mulhouse, France, is an amazing place. It has the largest collection of automobiles on display, thanks to the Swiss brothers Hans and Fritz Schlumpf and their obsession...
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