OT: Internet connect cars

[Richard Kreiss]

One of my client's purchased a Tesla which is internet connected.

The car get around 250 miles per charge.  It is driven roundtrip 5 days a week from New Jersey to Ronkonkoma, New York (Long Island).  It has a large touch screen located vertically in the center of the dash board.  Many items usually controlled with push buttons or knobs are controlled from here.  The GPS software works well as long as one is in an area with Cell service.  This is one of the better installations of touch screen technology I have seen.  However, a radio which has real push buttons is still more functional as those buttons can control more devices more easily.  Think one button dialing with a Bluetooth connected phone.

I think to auto companies have rushed the technology without thinking through how it will be used, especially in a moving car.  Drivers would need another set of eyes located at the top of their heads so that they can see the road while looking down at the screen.  One of these days, voice technology will be much improved and the drive might be able to say"

"Set temperature to 72 degrees"
"Sat radio on, station 71, volume up 5", then after a while say "change to channel 35, volume down 5"
"Phone Randy on, call Sam's cell phone"

And these commands will actually work.  One might even have, like in the movie 2012, the ability to say "Car start" with voice recognition and only start for those whose voice it recognizes.  Of course this would present a problem when the car needs to be parked by a parking lot attendant.

Richard Kreiss


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> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 04:05:32PM -0700, Bill Campbell via Filepro-list thus
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> > Is this like General Motors pushing internet connections in their cars
> > when they can't make a working ignition switch?
> 
> Well, you direct people's focus to what actually works.  :)
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