Oems Gear Up For U.s. Telematics Market

摘要

For the last ten years or so, General Motors, Mercedes and BMW have had the U.S. telematics market to themselves. Now every other major carmaker in the U.S. wants in on telematics, and everyone except for Ford and Hyundai has been out shopping for a telematics service provider. All major carmakers selling vehicles in the U.S. are expected to be up and running with telematics services by 2012 or sooner. First launched on 1997 model year Cadillacs, OnStar is today installed in 95% of GM models. With more than four million subscribers, it is by far the world's largest telematics operation. Mercedes and BMW introduced OnStar-like ser-vices with automatic collision notification in the U.S. in 2000.