Experiments with Alternative Energy: Part 12 - Build the Telematics Car

摘要

Telematics is the twenty-first century word for "telemetry" which was coined somewhere around the mid-1950s, to mean wirelessly transmitting data from one point to another - usually from a moving vehicle like a car, plane, or spacecraft to a ground station. These days, telematics is an entire industry generally focused on modern automobiles that wish to be "always connected" to where they are and where they are going. GM's OnStar? is one example, as is FordSYNC? that purport to keep you in touch with your vehicle as you drive - as well as the environment in which you're driving - with things like GPS voice activation, accident detection, directions to the next filling station or restaurant, etc.