Social Computing Group Blog » cars http://socialcomp.com/blog Glimpses of Our Hive Mind Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:48:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The Internet of Cars. “An internet of c… http://socialcomp.com/blog/681 http://socialcomp.com/blog/681#comments Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:48:26 +0000 Tom http://socialcomp.com/blog/681 The Internet of Cars. “An internet of cars promises a road system designed around cooperative technology enabling each element of the traffic system – cars, drivers, traffic lights, signs – to cooperate proactively to create a safer, more efficient driving experience.” and “. The project has developed a complete communications infrastructure; a platform that can use any known communications infrastructure; attached a scalable, open, and partly open-source software chain to a scalable hardware chain; and created a series of application programming interfaces and an open application development suite for third-party software developers.” See http://bit.ly/cbhlfV

]]> http://socialcomp.com/blog/681/feed 0 Open platform for in-car applications. F… http://socialcomp.com/blog/675 http://socialcomp.com/blog/675#comments Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:51:19 +0000 Tom http://socialcomp.com/blog/675 Open platform for in-car applications. Ford and partners have opened its Sync APIs to mobile app developers (Sync allows drivers to use voice reco and speech synthesis to interact with internet radio and Twitter apps). Ford is also supporting a course at the University of Michigan in which students “work in small teams to design, build, and demonstrate automotive telematics applications.” See http://tr.im/Sdu8

]]> http://socialcomp.com/blog/675/feed 0 Remotely triggered car horns as emergenc… http://socialcomp.com/blog/516 http://socialcomp.com/blog/516#comments Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:38:07 +0000 Tom http://socialcomp.com/blog/516 Remotely triggered car horns as emergency signals. Starting in September 2010, all new cars sold in Europe will be equipped with a technology called E-Call. It consists of a GPS sensor and a mobile phone component, which is activated only in case of an accident (i.e. when the airbags are triggered) and which can transmit data (e.g. accident time, coordinates and driving direction of the vehicle) to an emergency call center.

“This infrastructure can also be used to warn the population. Once the cars are equipped with a radio receiver, their horns can be triggered in case of disaster. The receiver can be activated only by civil protection agencies. These might send e.g. the following signal to the vehicles: »To all vehicles that are equipped with the receiver and that are currently within the boundaries of the following GPS coordinates: If the engine is off, start sounding the horn!«” See http://tr.im/tRgA and http://tr.im/tRf1

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