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NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Audi of America will launch its first 4G LTE service with the new Audi connect system in A3 models due Spring 2014. In a press conference at the 2013 Connected Car Expo at the Los Angeles Auto Show today, Audi officials detailed the services and long-term opportunities enabled by technology, which it had announced in January.

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MARCH 28, 2013

Ford launched a $50,000 challenge for software developers to write innovative apps to help consumers better understand and improve their personal fuel efficiency. Participants will have access to Ford’s OpenXC connectivity research platform as a sandbox to create and test their ideas for the Personalized Fuel Efficiency Apps Challenge.

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OCTOBER 10, 2019

Powered by Android, the new infotainment system offers customers unprecedented personalization, improved levels of intuitiveness and new embedded Google technology and services. The Google Assistant also allows a driver to interact with smart-home devices from the car.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Delphi Automotive PLC launched Delphi Connect with 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot, a premium version of its cloud-based automotive connectivity system with Verizon Wireless introduced last year. Delphi Connect plugs into the OBD II port. Data transmitted through any Delphi Connect device remains secure and encrypted.

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APRIL 29, 2014

Over the past year, Google has shifted the focus of its autonomous vehicle project onto mastering city street driving, according to Chris Urmson, Director, Google Self-Driving Car Project. Google says that its autonomous vehicles have logged nearly 700,000 autonomous miles (1.13 —Chris Urmson. Title and description.

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MARCH 4, 2015

AT&T and Audi enabled the first-ever in-vehicle 4G LTE data connection in North America in 2014. Under the agreement, all 2016 models with Audi connect will be delivered to customers with an AT&T SIM card providing connectivity to the AT&T wireless network.

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JULY 29, 2015

a San Francisco-based company that designs and deploys environmental sensor networks, is partnering with Google Earth Outreach to map and better to understand urban air quality. Today we’re announcing the success of our integration test with Google, which lays the foundation for generating high resolution maps of air quality in cities.

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MAY 12, 2011

Prototype screen shot of Ford’s Google Cloud Prediction. Ford researchers are applying Google’s Prediction API to more than two years of their own predictive driver behavior research and analysis in an effort to enable vehicles independently to change how they perform to deliver optimal driveability and fuel efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2015

The 5-year-old MINI Connected app is undergoing a major relaunch , with the new version available to download from mid-August. The new MINI Connected will simplify the App’s menu interfaces and offer MINI drivers a console to display a range of information and driving related functions. Other MINI Connected menu items.

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JANUARY 21, 2012

Equipped with a 20 kWh lithium-ion battery and 92 kW coaxial electric motor, the Fit EV battery can be fully recharged in as little as 3 hours when connected to a 240-volt circuit. As part of the Honda Electric Vehicle Demonstration Program, Honda will test the Fit EV with Google Inc.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2023

is designed to connect the major aspects of the company’s value chain, including development, production, omni-channel commerce and services—effectively making it an operating system for the entire Mercedes-Benz business. Within MB.OS, everything will be fully connectable through the Mercedes-Benz Intelligent Cloud.

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JANUARY 3, 2017

Volkswagen has developed a special app for CES 2017, available now at the App Store ( iOS ) and at Google Play ( Android ). This makes it easy to configure personal settings, integrate any services from third-party sources and port them wherever they wish. In the Connected Car, visitors can try out their personal digital world live.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2025

credits to riders who connect to seven eligible transit stations. The company, which is backed by Google’s parent company Alphabet, will run the program from February 4 through April 1, offering convenient routes to and from the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). What are your thoughts?

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JUNE 15, 2023

One of its many features is connecting members with other app users who have similar interests or affiliations, or live nearby. All the app’s personalized features require permission from users to share their information. You can download the IEEE app from Apple’s App Store or Google Play. The IEEE app can help.

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OCTOBER 18, 2011

At the Google I/O conference in May, Ford introduced its research and innovation into using the cloud to predict driver behavior in order to optimize vehicle control systems and improve vehicle performance attributes such as fuel or hybrid-electric efficiency. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 17, 2011

To help the driver manage the electric vehicle ownership experience, the Fit EV will have a standard telematics system that allows the driver to stay connected through a smartphone, personal computer or interactive remote. Honda will test the Fit EV with the City of Torrance, California Google Inc.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2010

To help the driver manage the electric vehicle ownership experience, the Fit EV will have a standard connectivity system that allows the driver to stay connected through a smartphone and personal computer, or the Honda-exclusive interactive remote, while away from the vehicle. and Google, Inc.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The top-line Touring features Honda’s first integration of Google built-in. This includes apps such as Google Assistant, Google Maps and more on Google Play for a helpful, personalized and connected driving experience.

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JANUARY 8, 2013

The Ford Developer Program for open mobile apps provides a software development kit (SDK), technical support from Ford engineers and a developer community to enable utilizing the SYNC connectivity system and AppLink application programming interface (API). —Doug VanDagens, global director of Ford Connected Services.

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JULY 17, 2012

General Motors’ OnStar subscribers can now rent out their idle vehicles through the RelayRides marketplace, leveraging OnStar connectivity already active in their vehicles ( Earlier post ), and with no need to hand over their keys. connecting to the objects they are accessing, other consumers, or the company.” Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2016

The acronym CASE is the name given to the specific area of strategy at Mercedes‑Benz Cars that focuses on the future-oriented issues of “connectivity”, “ autonomous driving”, “sharing” and “electric drive systems”. Earlier post.). The relevant app will be available to download from December from the Apple iTunes store at first.

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JANUARY 21, 2016

Maven’s mission is to give customers access to highly personalized, on-demand mobility services. The global Maven team includes more than 40 dedicated employees from the connected car technology industry as well as ride- and car-sharing professionals from Google, Zipcar and Sidecar. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Researchers are in the midst of the nation’s largest street-level connected vehicle experiment, called Safety Pilot, which involves some 3,000 area residents in networked vehicles. That’s the goal of the Mobility Transformation Center, a cross-campus University of Michigan initiative that also involves government and industry representatives.

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OCTOBER 23, 2015

One of the studies showed that it is highly distracting to use hands-free voice commands to dial phone numbers, call contacts, change music and send texts with Microsoft Cortana, Apple Siri and Google Now smartphone personal assistants, though Google Now was a bit less distracting than the others. 3.3), as did Apple Siri (3.4,

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NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Blue Link brings connectivity directly into the car with technology like Remote Start with Climate Control, Destination Search powered by Google, Remote Door Lock/Unlock, Car Finder, Enhanced Roadside Assistance, and Stolen Vehicle Recovery. Remote door lock/unlock across all Hyundai models.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

—David Hatton, Ford manager, Connected Vehicles and Services. Last trip summary includes personal driving score, percentage of electric vehicle miles. Included with this update, the main app offers a Google Maps feature with pinch/zoom capability, which provides availability of nearby charging stations.

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JUNE 25, 2015

The CarUnity app can be downloaded for free from the Apple App Store and Google Play. CarUnity users can, for example, offer their car only to their Facebook friends or to people in their personal CarUnity network. It does not matter if the car is an Opel or a different brand. We are taking a new approach with CarUnity.

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AUGUST 15, 2018

They contain layers of semantic information such as lane connectivity, drivable areas, crosswalks, signs, signals, traffic restrictions, and other information that is specific to each end customer’s solution. DeepMap has assembled a 75-person team with extensive experience at launching maps at massive scale.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2021

Qualcomm Technologies has worked with GM for years to supply advanced communication solutions for GM’s connected car applications, including safety and diagnostics featured in GM’s connected Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac vehicles.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2016

The main focus is on a completely new generation of infotainment and connectivity. This means that drivers constantly have to restore their personal settings. Volkswagen has designed a new generation of personalization that simplifies this process significantly. App Connect. With its 9.2-inch ACC Adaptive Cruise Control.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and OpenAI have all recently unveiled experimental models that can use computers the way people dosearching the web for information, filling out forms, and clicking buttons. Next out of the gate was Google DeepMind with its Project Mariner , built on top of Googles Gemini 2 language model.

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DECEMBER 16, 2015

The testing is further advancement of Ford’s 10-year autonomous vehicle development program and a key element of Ford Smart Mobility, the plan to take the company to the next level in connectivity, mobility, autonomous vehicles, the customer experience, and data and analytics. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 18, 2021

As cloud computing and data centers spread around the world, Google, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft start joining cable consortia, and in the past few years Google began building its own cables. Google has 23 giant data centers around the globe, each one constantly updated to mirror the Google cloud for users in their region.

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JANUARY 6, 2015

At the 2015 CES in Las Vegas, Volkswagen is showcasing the ongoing development of more connected, more intelligent vehicles by demonstrating four main aspects of emerging mobility technology: computer-controlled drive systems; app and smartphone integration; intuitive vehicle operation; and autonomous and semi-autonomous driving.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

At the same time the new shock absorber generation with its wider spread characteristics enhance comfort thanks to an even more precise response characteristic and also improve the body connection during dynamic driving. Mobile phones and smartphones can now also be connected via Wi-Fi.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 14, 2023

Because the advent of the automaker’s first new-era electrical crossovers attracts related with the Honda Prologue and the Acura ZDX, the corporate is simply as fascinated by digitizing the person revel in as it’s on launching its first two aggressive zero-emission cars.

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JANUARY 27, 2021

The AI Engine supports driver and passenger personalization, in-car virtual assistance, natural voice control, language understanding, driver monitoring and occupant presence detection and adaptive human machine interfaces. Qualcomm Technologies has secured infotainment and digital cockpit wins with 20 of the 25 global automaker brands.

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