The winner of the Tech CARS Award for Best Automotive Trade Show, the Connected Car Expo has metamorphosed into a technology/automotive mega show with a
ITU announced it has published a ‘whitelist’ of smartphones that are compatible with Bluetooth-enabled hands-free telephone systems in vehicles. The list is designed to help
Visteon will show new connected vehicle technologies and services at CES International, January 6-9, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada simulating cockpits of the future.
Visteon will demonstrate Cloud-based live 4GLTE over-the-air connections that are designed to improve driving features. Visteon will demo autonomous driving through immersive simulators.
The biggest competitor in the world to Google is China’s search giant Baidu and in their parallel universe research and development labs in China and the Silicon Valley are working on self driving cars and possibly bikes which may hit the road later this year.
A Baidu rep told Tech in Asia confirmed that Baidu is in the very early stages of development of driverless cars.
Nissan’s CEO at a news conference reported that fully driverless cars will not be coming in this decade. However features that ease the stress of
The type of tragic truck accident that involved Tracy Morgan and friends may be avoided in the future after research and studies by Virgina Tech.
The Virginia Tech Transportation Institute will receive $55 million to further study safety efforts for commercial truck drivers and automated vehicles.
The contracts are awarded from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Volvo Car Group has many connected car features in the works – magnetic sensing vehicles, cloud sharing of road hazards and sensors for cars to get to know their drivers while offering help or accident prevention.
Nissan has pledged to offer robotic, autonomous vehicles by 2020. Driver-less Nissan Leaf test vehicles are being tested under many conditions.
Nissan tests vehicles in a dedicated autonomous driving city in Japan. The track has real houses for life-like self-driven car testing without using public roads for maximum safety.
Ford made many announcements at Mobile World Congress and showed how it is advancing connected car services.
The new Ford Focus has rear sensors for the Cross-Traffic Alerts warning drivers of traffic while driving in reverse as well as blind spot alerts. The City Stop feature will try to stop the Ford if there is chance of accident.
Ford will socialize its marketing with the connected EcoSport cars in a six month blog and social media campaign. Ford of Europe will show a new automated research car with automated driving and other advanced technology after 2025.
The event will start at Mobile World Congress called EcoSport Live. Cars will be loaned to one hundred of the hippest bloggers to write about the EcoSports connectivity via social media.
Cevrolet partnered with OnStar 4G LTE and AT&T for optional Wi-Fi hotspots for 2015 Chevrolet Corvette, Impala, Malibu, and Volt with OnStar 4G LTE installed.
AT&T customers will be able to add their Chevy to AT&T Mobile Share plans. Drivers can also pay for data separately. Pricing and data packages for OnStar 4G LTE will be announced later in 2014.
Priceline.com and General Motors will connect your Chevrolet car to a hotel booking through an app in Chevrolet AppShop or via OnStar [rss-cut] this year.