Bloomberg – 11:28 – 4/01/2017
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SmartDeviceLink Consortium has the aim of encouraging more options for connecting smartphones and vehicles
Ford Motor Co. and Toyota Motor Corp. have formed a consortium with four medium size manufacturers of cars to accelerate the development of standards in the automotive sector for the built-in applications in vehicles, a measure designed to prevent Apple Inc. and Google control how to connect the drivers smartphone to their cars and trucks.
Ford and Toyota said that Mazda Motor Corp., PSA Group, Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. and Suzuki Motor Corp. adding to its SmartDeviceLink Consortium. The goal of the non-profit group is to encourage more options for the connection of smart phones to the technologies incorporated in vehicles, such as screens on the dashboard and the voice recognition, and other programming, said Ford and Toyota in a joint statement on Wednesday.
Toyota has been reluctant to offer CarPlay from Apple and Android Auto from Google in their vehicles, citing concerns that can decrease the safety, security and protection. Ford offers it in all their cars of 2017. But the second manufacturer of cars largest in the united States wants, anyway, a platform of open-source software that can be used by all application developers as an alternative to Google and Apple.
“Encouraging innovation is fundamental in the decision of Ford,” said Doug VanDagens, global director of Ford Connected Vehicles and Services.
vendors Elektrobit Automotive GmbH, Luxoft Holding Inc., and Xevo Inc. also joined the consortium, according to the release. Honda Motor Co. I had considered the measure, but it is not mentioned in Wednesday’s announcement.
The automakers, the suppliers of the automotive sector and technology companies, as experts in cloud computing are forming a series of partnerships to develop cars and autonomous vehicles that can communicate by Internet. On Wednesday, PSA, manufacturer of Peugeot, the manufacturer of communications equipment, Ericsson AB and the telephone company is French, Orange SA, said they will try to use the wireless technology 5G to improve the functions of automatic driving and road safety. Update the access to the Internet is crucial to help cars self-employed, to gather and exchange information on the conditions of the routes and traffic.
Toyota agreed to collaborate for the first time with Ford in terms of systems of telematics in 2011. Manufacturers come with the concern that if CarPlay and Android Auto are set as options unavoidable, the influence of Apple and Google on the sector to grow.
The version of Ford’s technology SmartDeviceLink is now available in 5 million vehicles in the world, and provides the driver with popular applications such as Pandora, Spotify, iHeartRadio and AccuWeather.
To expand the consortium, the automotive companies expect to maintain control over the level of access that the application of infotainment data in the vehicle, according to the release.
“We are excited to collaborate with many car manufacturers who share our vision,” said Shigeki Tomoyama, president of Connected Company of Toyota.
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