The connected cars : Real moving computers!

Like many others stuffs cars become connected. This evolution is taken into account by many traditionnal car’s constructorv such as Mercedes or Citröen but also by some news entrants in the market like Tesla or high technology firms (Apple, Google). Tesla Motors for instance is one of the most innovative firms in this sector. They develop many functions around the connectivity of their cars.  The dashboard looks like a tab and allows to manage many actions in the car just by touching it.  The car is entirely connected to the internet with a 3G connexion and the software can be updated directley from the platform Tesla.  But one of the most interresting function is the homelink. Connected house and connected car can be linked together. So the consumer can arrive at home, the portal will open automatically. Then when the car is parked the charger of the house will load the car without human action. 

However one of the most ambitious project in the future is to have no drivers anymore. It means that roads will be an entire connected race with cars connected between it. The advantages will be awesome : less traffic jam, less accidents, control of the energy used by cars… The most advanced company with this type of vehicle is Google with its Google Car. They are created with a spectacular system of radar and camera that help the car to integrate and to analyze the environment.

If these cars make dream people, we cannot say that it is really common to see those types of cars in the streets. The Tesla cars are very expensive and the associated chargers are implemented in a few place. The Google car is a project in a long term vision. But behind these spectacular innovations, the tradionnal car industry is integrating many digital functions like connexion with smartphones. So most of the people will see really fasly the evolution of the cars !

                                                                     Maxime Vaudin & Loïc Rencker

Source articles : http://siliconvalley.blog.lemonde.fr/2015/06/26/premiers-essais-sur-route-pour-la-voiture-sans-conducteur-100-google/

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