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Lexus Autonomous Advanced Active Safety Research Vehicle
Toyota is testing their Lexus 600 that is equipped with Advanced GPS, radar, laser ranger-finders, super-precise odometer, accelerometers and stereo cameras all to help it navigate. It can all tell the between red/green lights. However, with all of this equipment, its no designed to be a self-driving car. Jim Pisz of Toyota explains Autonomous does not mean driverless... technology should enhance a driver's skills, but we do believe that the technology is at a state where it can intervene in a case where driver error is absolutely evident. Anyways, Toyota goes on to say that they are not yet ready for the self-driving car. However, that doesn't go with say that self-driving isn't ready for us. It's more on the line, are we ready for the self-driving car?
QNX w/ AT&T Watson Speech Recongition
QNX wants to to put an end to those in-car voice systems that required to say commands like 'Say number or contacts name' 'Did you say?' 'Say yes to dial or back to go back.' Those annoying things. So with AT&T's Watson engine, QNX will build a new speech system that will be bring more organic conversations with our car. We should see something from QNX sometime this year.
TI Automotive Infotainment
Texas Instruments having been working with their new DLP technology and moving from phones to now in-car infotainment systems. TI thinks DLP is a perfect fit for cars because it delivers higher brightness, wider field of view and better color reproduction than competing display technologies, and it can be used in curved displays.The infotainment will run with two Cortex A15 cores, tow Cortex M4 cores and PowerVR SGX-544 graphics. We probably won't see the first release until 2014. Check out the demo video below.
Garmin K2 Automotive Infotainment
TI ain't the only one that wants be your next gen in-car infotainment. Their system will bring your multiple displays and advance avionic, offering you the ultimate glass cockpit experience. The main system will have a 10-in touch screen, with a highly customization 12-in panel behind the steering well. That second display is where you'll find all the essential gauges, but it also provides navigation, vehicle info, along with communications, including text messages and email, and more info on whatever music you're currently playing. K2 is powered by a dual-core ARM Cortex-A15 processor with the ability to feed content to multiple screens, including some for passengers in the back. Also to be present is 3D Navigation, gas prices, traffic and weather all in real time and smartphone controls.
iHeartRadio and Slacker Radio
iHeartRadio will be coming to Chrysler and GM automobiles. While Slacker Radio will be coming to Chrysler's UConnect.
