Category: Telematics

It’s a Talking Car!It’s a Talking Car!

Vehicle maintenance is an obscurity for the majority of car owners. The closest auto owners come to feeling in-control of the up-keep is by heeding the oil-change reminder stickers on their windshields – “Take me in for service on 8/23 OR at 24,000 miles.”
Although many owners realize regular maintenance will […]

Four ‘Open Social’ principles for vehicle telematics providersFour ‘Open Social’ principles for vehicle telematics providers

A Bill of Rights for users of the social web has already been proposed by a group of tech influencers, but it did not address offline data portability. Ben Bloom remedies that with a set of proposed principles that are specific to vehicle telematics providers.

Advanced telematics services in an age of portable dataAdvanced telematics services in an age of portable data

Open is the new closed. Oversharing. TMI. We’ve learned the effects of simple and instantaneous text, image and video publishing. Automotive telematics are poised to create a similar trend for location, yet with these new telematics services comes both a wonderful opportunity and a dangerous scenario […]

Video games and vehicle telematics convergenceVideo games and vehicle telematics convergence

There have been video games about cars for nearly as long as there has been video games. Even so, for the past 10 years Gran Turismo has stood out among the many racing titles as the game about cars and driving. Gran Turismo was created by Kazunori Yamauchi and developed […]