At CES, Delphi will unveil another industry-first with an aftermarket V2V unit that will enable all equipped vehicles to talk with one another

Source: safecarnews.com

Clearly the aftermarket is the only way to move the mountain of V2X to enhance safety. Who wanted to have the first FAX machine with nobody to send documents to?

“We want to make this self service, letting people use Ovasys to try things out,” said Amrit Vivekanand

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“Try before you buy” is the new mantra for innovation in automotive. And a full scale ADAS vehicle is the way to build POCs for automated driving.

The average car had $333 worth of chip content as of 2014, an increase of 11 percent in the past four years

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I can see ADAS easily doubling this figure, a good time to have make past investments in automotive silicon development, tough time to enter from scratch with FuSa and security requirements escalating.

partnership is set to be announced by Ford at the Consumer Electronics Show in January

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Is anyone surprised there will be a commercialization plan for Google’s autocars? Like everything else they do, volume is key so Ford makes sense. CES will be interesting news week.

Amazingly, only 2% to 7% of current U.S. vehicles “have some capacity for OTA updates,”  That will change rapidly.

Source: www.networkworld.com

“Rapidly” is relative, in automotive years this means at least 5-10 because of legacy infrastructure inside the car and in the factory backend. Connected cars is not easy beyond infotainment.

But at the heart of the problem is an outdated connected car model that requires consumers to pay again for services they are already receiving on their smartphone at a much higher quality and ease of use.

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Joe, greatpoint, the opportunity is with OEMs to catch up on the business model consumers will pay for.

“When you use smaller roads, you have problems with speed, traffic is congested, safety becomes an issue and there are also lower levels of engine efficiency.” In contrast he pointed out the better traffic flow and safety of modern highways.

Source: www.connectedcar-news.com

It’s so much simpler than this, the automotive industry wants a universal network technology and with the internet (IP) inside and outside the car this will finally happen.

I believe we’ll see more change in the automotive industry in the next five to 10 years than in the past 50.

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Clearly this revolution will involve a lot of automotive electronics and software innovation. GM has the scale to make a very big impact in the next 5 years.

NXP Chief Executive Rick Clemmer told Reuters, adding this will only happen once Freescale is more fully integrated

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Integrations are tough, and often result in compromises, let’s see if NXP management can create a #1 company.