Consumer Electronics Show
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Chrysler has revealed a new version of its Uconnect touch-screen interface at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show, which the automaker claims is the first in the industry to enable dealers to upgrade the system with navigation, weeks, months or even years after the car is bought. This means that used car buyers with a Uconnect-equipped car can have navigation added to the system if the car wasn't originally ordered with the mapping tool. The latest Uconnect systems have all the necessary hardware for navigation; they just need to be unlocked by a dealer. Chrysler’s navigation system...
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Hyundai Partners With Apple And Google For Next-Gen Car Tech
Hyundai is heading to the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show next week to showcase the next generation of its Blue Link telematics and infotainment system. The new system is designed to incorporate the best of Apple and Google technology along with features from several other industry giants...
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Lexus Autonomous Driving Technology Teaser: 2013 CES
The Consumer Electronics Show has, over the past several years, become more and more about automotive technology. This year, Lexus will be flaunting its latest, including its take on autonomous driving tech. While the company is touting the system as if it were about to reach production, one look...
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Lexus To Outline Autonomous Car Strategy At 2013 CES
In the race to develop the world’s first self-driving car, Japanese firms have been lagging their European and North American counterparts. Google has already developed a fully autonomous vehicle and has even gained a license to test it on public roads in the state of Nevada. Mercedes-Benz...
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Autonomous Driving Traffic Jam Assistant Coming To Audi A8
At the Consumer Electronics Show taking place in Las Vegas this week Audi announced a bold new technology coming to its A8 flagship sedan within the next couple of years: the autonomous driving Traffic Jam Assistant. Designed for slow moving traffic jams, the new Traffic Jam Assistant will allow...
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2013 Audi A3 Interior Revealed At CES 2012
Proving yet again the growing importance of in car electronics, Audi has unveiled the interior of its next-generation A3 at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week. Though the new A3 isn’t set for a debut until March’s Geneva Motor Show, before going on sale towards...
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OnStar will show its latest 4G tech at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in January.
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CES 2011: Getaround lets you share your car for cash
One of the coolest features of the Visteon C-Beyond technology demo car at this year's CES is the built-in social ridesharing service. Though that's still a hypothetical service, there's a company doing something very similar in the real world, right now: Getaround. Car sharing isn't a brand-new...
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CES 2011: Next-Gen Audi MMI Integrates Touchpad Into Scroll Wheel
Audi has used this week’s 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to preview its next-generation MMI technology, the German automaker’s innovative human-machine interface which integrates a special touchpad with handwriting recognition as an input system. The touchpad interface...
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2011 CES: GM Launches Retail OnStar For Non-GM Cars, Shows Off 4G Prototype
GM is taking heed of customer demand to launch its innovative OnStar system as a standalone retail device, offering the system in a replacement rearview mirror that owners will be able to install in virtually any vehicle. The OnStar rearview mirror offers the key features of the popular GM...
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CES 2011: Toyota Entune brings mobile apps, music
Mobile phones (or other devices) are often the scapegoats for a host of evils behind the wheel, but that's not stopping the industry from pushing ever-higher levels of integration, and Entune is Toyota's latest stab at the goal. With mobile apps, Internet radio and more, it's a deep stab, too...
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CES 2011: AT&T broadband to power BMW mobile data, infotainment
The Consumer Electronics Show is underway this morning and already the automotive-technology announcements are pouring out, the latest: AT&T announced it will provide wireless broadband for BMW vehicles to enhance the luxury carmaker's safety and infotainment offerings. The technology itself...
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With the year drawing to a close, it's time to set your phone reminders to January 6-9 for the annual 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, CES. For the car crowd, the CES has become an important stop on the show circuit, thanks to in-car technologies like SYNC, iDrive and iPad making their ways into the cabin. And this year, it's even more significant since the 2012 Ford Focus will be the official car of the event. During the largest technofest in the world, the Focus will be all over Las Vegas' convention center in displays and demonstrations. It and more than twenty other vehicles will also be a...