Hyundai can be started from smart watches on Android Wear
Using the Android Wear application, the owner of the Hyundai car equipped with the Blue Link system of the first or second generation can start or stop the engine, lock and unlock the doors, find the car in the parking lot, call the motorist for help, control the headlights and sound signal. All commands can be set by voice. The version for Apple Watch will appear after the start of sales of the device.
Does this system have competitors? About Ford, Apple, Kia and Chinese BYD - under the cut.
You should not expect from Blue Link the opportunities that James Bond had in the movie “Tomorrow will never die”. ')
But the Chinese automaker BYD in 2012 introduced a system of remote control of a car, with which you can park or take a car to the entrance of a house in the rain. The system has limitations: the range is ten meters, the speed of movement with remote control is up to 1.9 kilometers per hour.
The process of parking in 2014 car BYD F5 from the remote looks like this.
The best-known manufacturer in Russia, Kia, installs additional equipment for its remote control Remoto on their cars . The technology developer, Bright Box, in November 2014 received $ 1.5 million from the LETA Capital venture capital fund to improve the project. The investors of the project are Moscow Seed Fund, Cloud4Auto Ventures 12 and the seed fund Microsoft.
Installation of equipment takes place within two hours from an authorized Kia dealer in Russia. Remoto allows you to lock and unlock the doors, start the engine, control the temperature in the cabin, in addition to analyzing the driving style to improve it in a game form. In the event of an accident or evacuation, the system will notify the owner of this on the smartphone.
Apple in 2012 applied for remote control of some functions of the car, including mirrors and seat position. Perhaps this technology can be expected in the car from the company - if it releases the car .
Ford is working on a remote 4G vehicle in a new R & D center in Silicon Valley. The center is headed by a former senior systems engineer at Apple.
The remote control system consists of a Logitech pedal driver, available on the automotive sensor market. On modern cars, the system does not need a physical mechanism that turns the steering wheel. The developers have already experienced the idea of ​​a golf car, located two and a half thousand miles from the R & D center.