The inside from the Mercedes A Category concept vehicle.
(Credit: Mercedes-Benz)During the last couple of years, the passenger vehicle has developed from the gas-guzzling hunk of steel into what some have known as the biggest bit of electronic devices inside your existence.
So, while it's fitting the 2012 Electronic Devices Show (CES 2012) will probably be a jumping-off point for the following stage of development on vehicle infotainment, connectivity, and safety technology, I still think it is a little odd to determine a lot of cars discussing the ground with the kind of three dimensional Televisions little digital camera models. Since the vehicle has built itself like a cornerstone of CES 2012, what technology and items should we anticipate seeing
I predict that smartphone-connected cars might find their particular lists of compatible applications grow at CES 2012.
(Credit: Josh Burns/CNET)A literal information superhighway
Since a couple of car manufacturers have examined the waters with systems like Toyota Entune, BMW/Small Connect, Audi Connect, Hyundai BlueLink, and Ford Sync AppLink, I expect that 2012 would be the year the industry dives mind-first into hooking up the vehicle towards the cloud. Expect new partnership bulletins in the major OEMs with designers of popular applications which are helpful to motorists--think streaming Internet radio, location-aware deals services, social networking check-inches and friend finders, and destination search.
Only it will not you need to be the OEMs. I am also looking to see similar connected products in the aftermarket. Who definitely are the first one to the marketplace having a connected double-DIN alternative stereo system I am unsure, however it are only dependent on time before it takes place.
Interdevice communications
You will find two methods for getting the web in to the vehicle. The very first is to construct a radio connection in to the vehicle, however the manner in which most OEMs (Toyota, BMW, Ford, for instance) happen to be leaning toward is by using the main one you've already got: the 3rd generation/4G-connected cell phone within the driver's pocket. Expect the connection involving the smartphone as well as your automobile being tight than. I am also wishing to determine more car manufacturers and aftermarket producers searching past the low-hanging fruit of iOS connectivity and experimentation with new methods to integrate more carefully with Android, Home windows Phone, company, even Rim products within the next generation of vehicle technology.
Gracenote is going to be showing an interface that allows the consumer create playlists by swiping and tapping a MoodGrid.
(Credit: Gracenote)Experimental connects
Wonderful this new information in the driver's tips of the fingers, car manufacturers and third-party vehicle-tech OEMs will have to address the way the motive force interacts the automobile. Vehicle designers is going to be exceeding expectations of car interface design, pushing past the "virtual button" paradigm that touch-screen connects have utilized since their beginning. Anticipate seeing the implementation more gesture-based control schemes to harness all that swiping, pinching, and tapping that customers happen to be practicing on their own mobile phones.
I additionally anticipate seeing in-vehicle connects following mobile phones lower the road toward better quality and natural voice command systems and Siri-like digital concierge services.
Mike Tinskey, the manager for Global Electrification Infrastructure, talked about the charging station the Ford Focus Electric uses at CES 2011.
(Credit: James Martin/CNET)Anything might happen
After I heard that Ford was giving a keynote at CES 2011, I was expecting the car maker would certainly be trotting out a brand new version of their Ford Sync infotainment system. Nobody expected the Ford Focus Electric to roll to the stage if this did. The announcement of the new vehicle in a electronic devices show was unparalleled and blew our minds.
This season Mercedes-Benz is giving a keynote presentation this go-round, and you will wager it's got something large up its sleeve, so to not be surpassed by Ford. Expect the posh car maker to become highlighting its new connected service, integration with Google Maps and Street View, and it is range of driver assistance and passenger safety technologies.
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