Ford claims that its American Journey 2.0 research project culminated in the world’s first social media-connected road trip. Along the way from Ann Arbor, Mich. to the Maker Faire in San Mateo, Calif, Ford engineers and University of Michigan (U-M) students demonstrated the “first-ever auto-centric cloud-based apps,” claims the automaker.
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The second annual IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference today launched its conference website and issued a call for papers. Scheduled for Dec. 13-15, 2010 in New Jersey, IEEE VNC 2010 will cover a wide range of networking topics, including V2V, V2I, and VANET communications, as well as the overall impact of connected vehicles on transportation efficiency and safety.
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NAVTEQ says the U.S. Department of Transportation will use its map data across a wide range of research and analysis programs aimed at bringing advanced technologies into the nation’s transportation system. Initially, the company’s geospatial information and services will be incorporated into GeoMiler, a route-modeling application aimed at optimizing the performance of the nation’s freight transportation system.
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A new Google Labs webservice aims to help drivers find and share parking spaces. Using this new cooperative service, which unsurprisingly requires the use of Android-based smartphones, “we’ll all save time, save gas, and reduce pollution,” says Google.
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Syabas says it is nearly ready to ship the PopBox, which it announced in January. The $129 Internet-based A/V streaming set-top box (STB) will offer a variety of user-selectable media-streaming apps, but probably won’t include Netflix, Pandora, or Amazon PPV support at launch.
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