Baidu Teams Up With Hyundai To Launch Connected Cars

[bill]

http://www.valuewalk.com/2015/01/baidu-teams-up-with-hyundai-to-launch-connected-cars/ [valuewalk.com]

Baidu Teams Up With Hyundai To Launch Connected Cars

According to Hyundai’s statement, Volkswagen, General Motors and Audi have also agreed to sell cars with Baidu’s infotainment platform in China

Chinese search engine giant Baidu Inc has signed an agreement with Hyundai Motor Co to sell connected cars in China. Thanks to the rising popularity of smartphones, global automobile industry is betting on cars that are equipped with Internet access and infotainment services. Such vehicles can be connected to the Internet via users’ smartphones or even without them.

[engine]

More tech in a car, great! More driver distractions, too!

Some drivers can't cope with driving, never mind adding more distractions. Sorry, i'm biassed, I know.

Probably inevitable this will be in all our cars before too much longer.

[Jonesy]

+1
Whenever I am pushed to accept additional, technical gimerackery
in a device -- car, TV, washing machine, etc. -- I always ask:
"When it breaks, how much does it co$t to fix it?"

When some of that techno-fluff breaks, often the entire device is
inop.

[lucy24]

Darn. I misunderstood the headline and thought they were proposing the new, never-before-seen concept of connecting multiple cars to each other so only one person has to drive.

Phooey.