Connected Car: mobile operators must innovate to ensure OEMs profit
Connected Car: mobile operators must innovate to ensure OEMs profit
The mainstream connected car story swerves from focusing on highly conceptual driverless vehicle futurism to technophobic scaremongering like the supposed growing overreliance on sat navs causing havoc among a fresh generation of the cartographically challenged road user. The reality of the connected car is much more middle of the road.
Technically, pretty much anything in connected carland is possible. Elon Musk, CEO of US-auto-firm Tesla, said recently that the motor industry is only three years away from ‘autonomous’ cars rolling off the production line, while Google has its own high-profile driverless vehicle programme. But commercialising the technology for the mass market will take time, demand and scale.
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