Posted Jan 16, 2012, by John Day
It was a big deal less than two years ago for Delphi Automotive to show how a driver could bring a cell phone into a vehicle and interact with the phone’s apps on the car’s display screen – all of them when the vehicle was parked and only the appropriate ones when the car was moving.
Since then the effort to enable the use of smartphones in cars without distracting drivers has expanded to incorporate … Read More
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workload assessment,
Smartphones,
Delphi automotive,
Delphi's Electronics & Safety Division,
2012 Consumer Electronics Show,
Kathy Winter,
MyFi Connecting with Safety vehicle,
distracting drivers,
driver state monitoring
Posted Feb 5, 2010, by John Day
I want lots of connectivity in my next car and have every reason to expect it (and, of course, to use it responsibly). We’re talking-cutting edge technology of the kind increasingly available to mid-range buyers; features like Internet access, voice recognition, full-color touch-screen displays, diagnostics, and various forms of infotainment.
I was a bit surprised to learn that all of that and more … Read More
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OLED Displays,
Network Car,
LCD,
Android,
Bluetooth,
Linux,
Microsoft,
Netscape,
3G Cellular,
Google,
Delphi,
DSRC,
IBM,
Infotainment,
Bob Schumacher,
COMDEX,
Internet Access,
DVB-T,
DVB-SH,
Genivi Consortium,
QNX,
Voice Recognitiion,
Wi-Fi,
Touch-Screen Displays,
USB,
Smartphones,
Sun Microsystems
Posted Nov 11, 2009, by John Day
“Who needs a portable navigation device?” I sneered, back in the day when PNDs cost several hundred dollars and I didn’t travel very far very often, but after getting lost one time too many, buying one seemed like a good idea. It still does, but now the newness has worn off, replaced by thoughts of “what’s next?”
My cell phone has a navigation application that works better than I thought it would, … Read More
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TeleNav,
Smartphones,
Frost & Sullivan,
Google Maps Navigation,
Android 2.0,
Networks in Motion,
Portable Navigation Device (PND),
iSuppli Corporation,
Motorola Droid
Jim Martens
Harry Foster
J VanDomelen
Paul Johnston
Robin Bornoff
Dennis Brophy
Mike Jensen
Colin Walls
Jay Gorajia
Mark Olen
Travis Mikjaniec
Per Viklund