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speed, fuel consumption and access games is part of what’s next. It aims to create an autonomous car. Google and Mazda and perform advanced testing on the streets

WALL STREET / ABC – jmendez@eldeber.com.bo

The connected car is one of the most ambitious challenges automakers. The ‘internet of things’ gets behind the wheel. For years, some models incorporating adapted to new consumer habits (Plugs for iPod or iPhone, speakerphone, integrated browsers) services. In the absence of a standard and a palpable right formula, each pound their particular war. Next is mobile operating systems adapt to this industry.

Latest to join the bandwagon is Google and Audi, who announced during the CES 2014 consumer fair, held from 7 to 10 January in Las Vegas, a plan for the which both are working to develop the Android operating system suitable for cars.

‘Apps’ for cars

This alliance will allow Android manages entertainment vehicles of German manufacturer and may include a specific hardware inside the car and not just the phone. These systems are designed to allow drivers and passengers access to applications and services similar to those available on smartphones and tablets based on Android phones.

Google will work with the Nvidia chip maker, to allow drivers and passengers of vehicles accessing music, browsing, applications and services that are similar to the functions implemented in smartphones.

This announcement comes after seven months ago Apple explain its iOS operating system can be adapted to the car. Both Apple and Google have accelerated its plans to develop its operating system and apply it to cars. But there are differences, since Apple’s platform integrates the iPhone into the infotainment system of the vehicle itself to provide access to maps, messages and other applications, while the idea of ??Google-Audi is to launch own ‘apps’ based Android running on the hardware of the vehicle

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Five years The Google-Audi
project will be ready at that time.

Mazda, with his
You can see how it works in the MZD Connect Mazda3, which integrates the phone.

Support large
Mercedes Ferrari, BMW and General Motors are with Apple.

autonomous
Models Mazda and Google have their own projects to drive the car alone.

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