Trend: CES 2012 – smartphones on four wheels - Nissan Juke GTR

The new cloud technology enables many innovative applications. Ford wants to connect about the future pilots of its electric Focus Electric cars with each other. The then exchange their personal records from, for example, the largest recorded range without recharging. Those who come very far and saves a lot of CO2, collects points online and can show it off in the Web community.

Ford also plays Uncle Doctor. For smartphones there are already other party apps for people with allergies or chronic illnesses that are to be integrated into the car at Ford. By voice warning is there information about the current pollen count. The driver could communicate even his last measured blood pressure or blood sugar levels to the car. Of sugar in the blood is too low, advises the car, before driving to prefer to eat a bite. “There is still a legal problem: If the car collects medical data, it is considered legally as a medical device.” Said Dave Melcher Ford’s A driving skills test by the onboard computer will be so good yet to come

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Onstar not only people and cars, but also car and house. The subsidiary of General Motors shows a Chevrolet Volt at CES, with the infotainment system allows lighting and heating, garage door remote control and other functions in the house. A very common application is for apps for electric cars, with which one follows from the distance, the battery charge and determines the lowest electricity rates.

Mobile gas station equipped Audi at CES shows the cockpit of the new A3. The compact model from Ingolstadt gets an infotainment system, which has a much more powerful processor than the current A8. An eleven mm narrower and seven-inch monitor goes out from the dashboard. Operated in the infotainment system with a touch wheel. The rotary push-wheel serves as a touchpad like a laptop that can draw on the letter. The touchpad is it already in other Audis, the A3 combines all systems, however, a very small area and with much less counters.

The A3 should in future also have a charger for mobile phones. Then you have to give up his smartphone only in the storage box in the center console. There it is inductive, ie contactless charging – this cargo must be for the phone but equipped with the appropriate envelope. The wireless connection to the vehicle, the phone can also take advantage of the antenna of the car which improves reception. The signals from the phone to be called a planar antenna in the center console via cable and an amplifier forwarded to the vehicle antenna.

Even Mercedes is celebrating its first appearance at CES. It proceeds from the networking and Internet at the Stuttgart car ahead already. The new Mercedes SL is holding spring a new IT generation feeder. This allows the driver to retrieve in the future in real-time information of all kinds. What they ask for it to be seen. Daimler CEO Dr. Dieter Zetsche showed curiously at his CES debut. “We want to learn from users what they need in a car”