Cars are becoming the second home especially for those who have to spend several hours inside the vehicle. Driving for a long time or spending plenty of time inside a four wheeler is not so simple and comfortable. Moreover, it becomes boring since you get disconnected with people, you get no news from the surroundings, you no longer are able to play indoor games and you are not able to access the internet. But technology has made it all possible by providing you such a mechanisms through what you not only get connected to the outside world, but also it keeps a check of your comfort and safety.
All the massive automakers have stepped forward for researching and implementing such a hi-tech for their consumers. Almost everything is programmed by the inbuilt processors that limit your speed, control over traction, stability, and braking. Let's have a look over these car brands and their innovations and know how they are transforming your vehicle, or we should say transforming your life.
Honda’s Honda Link:
Connecting via entertainment and contacting people is personalized by using HondaLink. This lets you contact people by making calls and by sending text messages that too without using mobile phones. Voice commands are accepted and accordingly acted upon to make a call. Moreover SMS can be made through voice activation and hands-free dictation. HondaLink connects you with music, sports, news, people and other information. Moreover, places like restaurants, hospitals, etc can be found and recommended also by this.
BMW’s Car-to-X Technology:
BMW is engaged with a research project namely simTD. This stands for the Safe Intelligent Mobility and will be tested in Germany. A part of the project is the Car-to-X communication technology. As the title suggests, the technology would be connected to the outer world and would be able to communicate with it as well. The research is going to be helpful while the driver will be able to look farther. You can even see the hidden things and also would be told about what is around the corners. Many other automotive companies and telecommunication industry, prominent universities, and research institutes are also participating in the same research.
GM’s Enhanced Vision System:
Rainy and foggy climate is considered to be the most dangerous in terms of road accidents since objects outside are not clearly visible or a driver see it when they are very close to the vehicle and a hit can not be avoided. To interact with the outside world and objects, GM has brought the enhanced vision system. This works as a picture on the windscreen which is created by the light emitting phosphors as soon as road edges, animals or even the destination place is detected by a group of cameras mounted underneath the windshield, the forward-looking sensors including infrared sensors, the night vision, the radar etc.
Ford’s Smart Mobility Plan:
Approach of connecting cars to the realism is seen in Ford smart technologies like the SYNC, the voice commands and other as well. One fresh notion in the line with the same regard from Ford is the Smart Mobility Plan. The plan would take the car to new horizons by using big data, connectivity, autonomous vehicle expansion and to the mobility. This would confront-ate finding parking spaces, opening doors to medicare in the remote sphere and extracting the traffic lot in urban range.
BMW’s Webinos Project:
This is the Open source platform for mobile web apps across different devices and cars. In this, browsers can evolve into a shared web application platform. Using this platform cars and other devices can exchange data with one another. User devices and centers are constituted into a workplace called personal zone where the act takes place. Services provided for the in-vehicle assimilation are Vehicle API for accessing the vehicle data, the Geolocation API for speed and GPS location related data and the Device orientation API for lateral and linear acceleration data.
Moreover, the time is not far away when we get each and every update on our finger tips without getting out of the car. Not only this, your daily drives would also attract low premium from the insurance companies. The global efforts by the auto giants will surely make our life easy and hassle free.
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