CONNECTED VERSUS 'CONNECTED' VEHICLE

摘要

A little over 100 years ago (1908 to be exact) Henry Ford's original Model T was on the road, and by 1913 they were rolling off the first moving assembly line. In 1925, Ford was producing a vehicle every 10 seconds that cost $290, down from $850 in 1908. In 1920,9 million automobiles were registered in the U.S. and by 1929 that figure had risen to 26 million. This rapid adoption and expansion of automotive technology is similar to the way telephones have evolved. In 1881 there were 49,000 telephones; fast-forward to 1980 when 175 million telephones were in use in the U.S. In 2000, the Ericsson R380 was the first widely used mobile phone and it started the transition from land-line based phones to smartphones. Early smartphones were limited in capabilities and relatively expensive when compared to today's offerings. In 2010,62 million people were using smartphones in the U.S. and in 2018 that number reached 237 million.