It has a touch screen, the app allows you to communicate, listen to music, share information on social and much more. But it is not a smartphone. And 'the connected car, the car connected to the network.
And 'the latest generation of passenger car: equipped with the computing power of 20 computers, is able to process up to 25 GB of data per hour, the equivalent of 4 HD movies, and is equipped with more than 100 million lines of software.
GOOGLE CAR TO WHOM? Meanwhile, a clarification: the connected car is not the car without pilot for which work is Google, Apple and other big Silicon Valley and the automotive industry. The connected car is actually available on the market for some years and is distinguished from conventional cars to two characteristics.
First, it is endowed with a dense network of sensors that control every functional aspect of the vehicle, mechanics, electronics, dynamics, occupant safety and circulation. And then it is able to communicate outside the information collected from these counseling centers using the protocols and the infrastructure of the Internet.
SAFETY AT 360 °. The connected car is in fact equipped with all the necessary technology to minimize the chances of an accident but also the hassle less severe.
For example, the proximity arranged on the front and rear of the vehicle sensors may detect a sudden slowing of traffic very before us and start to brake before our has moved his foot from the accelerator to the brake. It is just a fraction of a second, but it could make the difference between pat the car that precedes us or get home in peace.
Similarly intelligent way this car is also able to read the road signs for us, eg the speed limit, and let us see that we are running a bit 'too much, or follow autonomously lanes of the highway and allow us to enjoy trip a bit 'more relaxed.
The BMW i3, the electric BMW, is connected to the Internet and checks by the smartwatch.
YES REPAIR ALMOST ALONE. But the connected car not only cares about the health and safety of occupants are also able to look after herself. The network of sensors with which it is equipped in fact keeps under control every functional aspect of the vehicle, reports any problems to the driver and is also able to communicate to the service of the manufacturer service.
The immediate advantage for the owner is a drastic reduction in repair times: when the car will arrive in the mechanical workshop will know almost all of the fault, if any spare parts have already been ordered and will be there, waiting to be assembled. A big saving, especially for those who use the car, truck or van as a means of work.
Not only the car connected can send the report on the faulty part or who broke the manufacturer directly, which can then identify the facility where it was produced, the production lot, the factory where it was assembled the car . And possibly decide that is the case to refer to a quote recall all cars that mount the same component.
HAVE YOU UPDATED YOUR CAR? And if the problem is only on-board electronics is not excluded that can be resolved remotely by the service center, which will connect to the car via the Internet and update one or more specific portions of the software.
Tesla, for example, is already able to release OTA (Over the Air, remotely) some new features of its cars, for example the autopilot that allows all'elettrica Elon Musk covering long road sections with almost no need of ' human intervention.
SMART THE ROAD. But the connected drive can also communicate in real time and with the other intelligent vehicles that move along the road, with both the road itself. Cars, public transport, trucks and vans that move in the same area or along a common guideline that can constantly communicate with each other and provide, for example, alternative routes drivers that optimize travel times and fuel consumption.
The system could propose different routes for those who have to go from one end of the city depending on the type of vehicle, by passing for residential areas only those less polluting and confining others on multiple external routes.
Similarly the road infrastructure could communicate to the cars the optimum speed to keep all traffic lights green to find the path and thus prevent the formation of traffic jams.
A traffic management of this type requires an infrastructure decidedly robust hardware and software, able to calculate and update in real time the navigation parameters of millions of vehicles at the same time, to monitor the traffic flow and to choose for each car path more appropriate.
in short, it must be an advanced and powerful technological system, able to adapt to new situations all the time and not predictable. Tools of this type already exist and are available to developers. One example is Watson IoT, the cognitive computing system designed by IBM for the Internet of Things that can handle up to 13 million messages per second.
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