Imagine this traveling in your car you access the net download stuff, play games, check e-mails and communicate via any Wi-Fi device…Broadband in your car and that’s what’s being promised by Autonet Mobile a start-up firm from San Francisco.
Autonet Mobile plans to unveil its Internet service provider for cars at International CES, the consumer electronics show that runs Jan. 8-11 in Las Vegas. The company is also aiming to announce an agreement with Avis to offer a portable, wireless Internet service by the end of the first quarter.
Microsoft may soon direct you to the nearest cheapest gas station with 3D maps in your car! Ford and Microsoft will jointly announce Sync, an in-car navigation and infotainment system built on Microsoft’s platform at the Detroit Motor show this month.
Sync is designed to let drivers navigate better, download and listen to music, talk by cell phone, and even get e-mail without using their hands, according to reports. Powered by Bluetooth — the same technology that powers wireless cell phone headsets — Sync will debut in two Ford models, the Focus and Five Hundred series, in 2007, then expand to all Ford models in the 2008 model year.
Now here’s the first luxury convertible since 2002 and it is from Rolls Royce and will be unveiled in at Detroit auto show later this month. The Rolls Royce Phantom Drophead Coupé is due to start production in summer of 2007 at the luxury automaker’s Goodwood plant in England.
It will retail for $407,000, or about £208,000. It is the first Rolls convertible since it stopped production of the Corniche in 2003. This will only be the second car out since BMW took over the company. Jet aircraft maker Rolls-Royce Group had sold its motorcar division in 1980 to Volkswagen in 1998.
For the longest time I wondered why you never really saw anyone walking around with an iPod in Tampa. When I spoke in San Francisco it seemed like every other person had an iPod, but of course every other person was walking around the city. In Tampa you don’t walk, you drive to your destination no matter how close it is and this made me realize that people probably just used their iPods in their cars. I know I do.
PCMag has found 6 ways to connect your iPod to your car stereo and it amazes that there are even six options.
Honda has decided it was time to cater to the folks that have to cart their dogs around all the time in their cars and created the WOW concept car. As most concept cars it is ugly, but I can see it fitting quite well in Japan for some reason.
Still doesn’t seem that safe with a dog sitting right there especially with a head on collision. I guess some concepts are better left on the drawing board.
via Newlaunches
The Citroen C4 is the first car to offer vibrating panels to warn the driver of a hazard. The optional system detects when the car is wandering across lanes and vibrates the side of the driver’s that matches thedirection of drift. This alerts the driver to the lack of control, but without the sudden burst of noise of a conventional warning that could cause the driver to overreact and steer suddenly in the other direction.