connected car world

Three communities to benefit from connected car worldi-mobility.org

#1- AUTO INDUSTRY

Auto industry is looking at connectivity to build customer relationship

Through being connected to their consumers, the industry will be able to build life-long relationship

GM ONSTAR

6 million+ subscribers

20,000 Red Button presses

7,500 Good Samaritan Calls

70,000 Key locked inside cars

3 million turn by turn navigation

1600 lines of diagnostic code

GM ONSTAR

Ford Motor Co.

Ford OPEN XC

Analysis of the accelerator pedal position The steering wheel positionAnalysis of vehicle speed data

Correlating speed data, GPS data and speed limit data reveals the best place for police to place a speed trap

#2 Developers

Industry supports

• “Customers want seamless in-car connectivity,” says Ford’s CTO Paul Mascarenas. But the biggest barrier to that goal is that every automakers wants its own branded, locked-in solution. That’s not a problem for monoliths like Pandora that can develop for multiple auto platforms, but smaller companies and individual developers just don’t have the resources to create one app across a dozen automaker systems. It kills innovation and is a massive hurdle for what’s shaping out to be the next great mobility platform.

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