General Motors cars can be driven from Android devices

A few days ago, the General Motors auto concern announced the release of the new version of the OnStar telematics service (the service provides wireless monitoring and diagnostics of the car from a remote device, such as a smartphone). Moreover, GM announced that it had a kind of “technology partner”, with which it is going to bring the OnStar service to a fundamentally new level. On its basis, it is planned to create a universal monitoring system that will be compatible with any cars. True, the company did not say who exactly is this technology partner.

According to information from anonymous sources (that is, according to rumors), Google will become this technology partner, and they want to remake the OnStar system into an open platform for Android mobile devices. Thus, GM cars may in the future officially start supporting the Android operating system.

Such an alliance is quite logical, given that Ford is developing its telematics system MyFord on the Microsoft Sync platform. The program Microsoft Sync is installed on different models of phones under different operating systems, and on its base each automaker can make its own system, MyMercury and MyLincoln were recently released.

Google and Microsoft are competitors in many areas. Now and in the automotive market, which is many times larger than the IT market, technological alliances can be formed that will compete in creating software for cars: these are Ford / Microsoft and GM / Google.