Matt Jones, Director of Future Technology at Jaguar Land Rover, explored the need for a common communications channel and the role that open source technology can play in a connected peer-to-peer transportation network

Read the full article at: automotivemegatrends.com

Worth a listen, especially the second 30 mins where collaborations are discussed in and out of the auto industry.

Intel doesn’t have “a strong track record at this point.” In the current market, “the leaders in the command and control systems are NXP and Renesas, the leader in communications is Qualcomm, and the leader in computer vision is MobileEye

Read the full article at: www.eetimes.com

I tend to agree with these evaluations, and it explains why the “big” press event was scheduled on a Thurs and held that Friday, just before 4th of July weekend. Intel may have been a last minute addition to an existing relationship between BMW and MobileEye, and an opportunity for MBLY to promote their 5th gen product, while they are 2 years away from delivering the 4th generation.

AT&T said it expects Cat-M1 to enable access to low-cost module technology; to extend the battery life of enabled devices 10 years or more; and to enhance coverage for underground and in-building areas where connectivity can be difficult

Read the full article at: www.fiercewireless.com

Low cost LTE that runs on batteries for 10 years? Where do I sign up? Hopefully all my “things” will only cost pennies per month to leak their diagnostic data.

The partners are contributing also to requirements definition for later releases of the 3GPP project, which will aim to enable a wide range of emerging use cases from connected and automated driving to new mobility services in the 5G era from 2020

Read the full article at: safecarnews.com

Applause to the partners and others to come in a collaboration to bring the goodness of DSRC and LTE together rather than continue as competitors. This is a win-win, cars get V2X safety, wireless carriers get now spectrum to expand business within.

the concept itself isn’t necessarily new, because some automakers already equip vehicles with cameras and monitors to show what is around a car, mirrors are still required under current regulations

Read the full article at: safecarnews.com

Note to Autonomous Car advocates: you will have duplicate features for some time in your car, both the old and the new as drivers, regulators, and suppliers adapt to the new technology. This is often a delay of years, perhaps decades.

analysts are skeptical that Mobileye – known as a jealous defender of its algorithms – would gladly share with anyone, let alone Intel

Read the full article at: www.eetimes.com

I don’t think Intel will win any sockets from this deal, but they will get some great industry marketing gains by contributing $100’s of millions and several hundred engineering resources to maintain their BMW relationship. Insiders know this is what happened between Intel and BMW with GENIVI, Intel did not win the first socket and struggled to win the second. Welcome to the automotive supply chain.

Among the advantages of analog is that is offers an infinite number of representations — for example, on a clock, as the hands move around the clock it can represent every single possible time, while a digital clock has a finite number of possible times it can represent

Read the full article at: iotdesign.embedded-computing.com

Contrary to popular belief, analog is not “bad”, in fact it is better than digital, proven example in the human brain – stores and thinks using analog. If computers could do this they’d be way, way more powerful. The software is too tough for most brains to write though. 😉

A Google search for “Internet of Things” term reveals over 280,000,000 results, thanks to the media making the connection between the smart home wearable devices, and the connected automobile

Read the full article at: www.bbvaopenmind.com

280M responses is a lot of IoT to sort thru. The Connected Car is just beginning to be on the search list. Matching cars up to home and wearables is a totally untapped market – if people care about it.

And if the U.S. had the same rate as Sweden—the country with the lowest crash death rate—about 24,000 fewer lives would have been lost and an estimated $281 million in direct medical costs would have been averted in 2013

Read the full article at: safecarnews.com

I really hate it when they develop statistics comparing the US to Sweden since there’s almost no comparison possible. However, when it comes to saving lives in car accidents, I suppose whatever it takes is worthwhile.

But he added cameras relying on visual signals alone were insufficient for safe autonomous driving at high speed

Read the full article at: safecarnews.com

Ok, so it will take much more than smart cameras to drive a car. Wonder if the market for MobileEye is big enough then?