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Chevy invests $5Bn in connected vehicles tailored for emerging markets
Its Chevrolet brand has announced the huge investment to strengthen its business in what it sees as global growth markets.An all-new vehicle family is planned in a bid to meet the rapidly changing...
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Improved MINI Connected software available to upgrade
MINI claims its new Streetwise app lets users display the best route on their smartphone before the journey has even started.The app makes use of personal driving data together with the user’s own past...
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More than 1Bn customer interactions recorded by OnStar
Launched 19 years ago to automatically place a call from the vehicle when an air bag deployed, OnStar today remotely unlocks doors, loads driving directions directly to the vehicle, compiles and sends...
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How can we ‘disclose’ a potentially fatal hack?
It is 2015 and we have now had the first recall based solely on a synthesised cyber-attack on an automotive platform. The good news is that the only affected vehicle was owned by the hackers and the...
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Why should the connected car mollycoddle its owner?
Four years ago I had the pleasure of being invited to cover the iconic Le Mans 24-hours race in France as a guest of Eugene Kaspersky, the malware expert behind Kaspersky Lab.Image: Channels: Auto...
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The Disrupters: Urban mobility at risk of ‘falling off a cliff’
“Local and city authorities are standing on the edge of a cliff right now when it comes to urban mobility,” Lindholm said. “They need to make decisions on mobility that goes beyond...
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Hold your horses, connectivity is the real power now
Talking to senior executives after spending a blisteringly hot afternoon cruising the mountain roads of Catalonia in Spain, it became clear that a car’s connectivity offering could be a seriously...
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How customer experience is driving the connected car
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Carmakers must press the pedal-to-the-metal to get up to IoT speed
Technology may be moving forward at a lightening pace but the car it wants to be heading into has the agility, by comparison, of a juggernaut’s turning circle. This may be an obvious fact considering...
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Smartphones may not hold all the cards for connected fleets
Perhaps in a perfect world, drivers would connect themselves with the onboard telematics rigs the carmakers created and installed for them and never want to mess with any interfering outside systems....
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Who wins the mobility race across one of the world’s busiest cities?
Just as the hare and tortoise each enjoyed special talents in their head-to-head competition, we decided to pit the varying advantages of three very different mobility solutions across England’s great...
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Now the VW barrage balloon's gone up, let’s make it a hydrogen one
It’s not just with comedy that timing is everything as Hyundai is proving right now airing the only commercially available hydrogen fuel cell vehicle in London on a daily basis.That’s because, hard on...
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Ford takes a peek at ‘Uber’ car ownership
Ford is fulfilling a pledge it made at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) to become a major mobility provider by piloting several schemes including one that could make it an “Uber for car...
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Life-style connectivity will stay portable for Citroën
Not every carmaker is eyeing up the potentially lucrative life-style aspects of the connected car with Citroën insisting it will focus mainly on safety and driver assistance aspects of the...
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Navigating the best route round wayfinding
Q: In London, the wayfinding system is credited with increasing transport sharing and a decreasing reliance on the car. How did they make the connection?Image: Primary Event: Consumer Telematics Show...
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Low cost carmakers mull over opportunities from connectivity
Much has been written around the premium end of the car market’s adoption of connectivity and all it provides in terms of safety and convenience but what’s happening at the bargain end of the...
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Range Rover catches up in the sprint towards connectivity
It’s safe to say that anyone who buys the new Range Rover Sport SDV8 is someone who wants it all – a high-wide-and-handsome off-roader that can sprint away from the traffic lights faster than most...
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How the brand badge could come second to a car’s tech pack
Back then, a clutch of technologies advanced to the stage where the online experience became available for anyone with a computer and a phone line. The wired automobile is at a similar point, with new...
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Exploring whether cybersecurity winds are set fair for over-the-air updates
Last year, cybersecurity was thrust into the spotlight when two major hacks exposed key weaknesses for automakers. The first was Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), who famously fell victim to an attack...
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There’s no time to lose in locking hackers out of connected cars
“Your car is a giant computer – and it can be hacked,” blared the headline on CNN’s web site.That feels like lurid, sensationalistic sound-bite; surely in this advanced day and age, connected car...
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