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As factory-fitted solutions have gotten cheaper and more advanced, embedded telematics has spread from the luxury segment down to cars for the everyman. The latest estimates suggest that 50% of new cars will come with embedded solutions by 2020, 90% by 2025 (see SBD’s “2025 Every Car Connected” report for more). If you’re the aftermarket, stats like those are scary.
More and more OEMs are enabling their head units to run apps, much in the same way tablets and smartphones already do. This creates new opportunities for personalization of the connected car experience. What role does Compuware play?
It’s six years almost to the day since the first commercial electric vehicle took to the road. Made by Smith Electric Vehicles, now U.S.-based but then a British firm best known for its iconic milk float, the “Edison” had a top speed of 50mph and a range of up to 150 miles on a single charge. Based on the Ford Transit, it even looked like a ‘proper’ van, so it wasn’t likely to alienate drivers as some of the early prototypes had.
In this video from Insurance Telematics Europe 2013, Manjit Rana, director of Ingenin, talks to TU's Jan Stojaspal about using the smartphone to open insurance telematics to a much broader audience and about finding a positive angle to sell it.
In this week's Brief: Autocar, smart, Mercedes-Benz Driving Academy, Carrot, Garmin, the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System, NNG, Appello, Turkcell, HARMAN, Mazda and Citroen.
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