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... be a big win so far for Ford, with the communications technology helping to move vehicles off dealer lots faster than vehicles without the system. Ford and Microsoft have been working to take SYNC to the next level, however, and the changes announce...
...t word is that a big talking point in his speech will be driverless cars. According to CNN Money/Autos, Wagoner is expected to reveal that GM will be testing driverless cars by 2015 and have cars on the road by 2018. What is meant by "on the road" re...
...arch of driverless vehicle technology in the coming decade, GM CEO Rick Wagoner will also debut a concept vehicle tomorrow at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas called the Cadillac Provoq. While very few details were released, GM says that th...
...h he announced a new version of SYNC that adds OnStar-esque capabilities like calling 911 after an accident and recording diagnostic information. Being that Bill will soon leave the company at which he's worked full-time since he was 17 years old, th...
...s are fully within our beat and raced over to get a couple of shots of Ms. Patrick. And, whatdya know? Once she saw the Autoblog press badge she went nuts, grabbed a t-shirt and a Sharpie and went to town. We were able to stop her before covering the...
...s Show in Las Vegas today was actually out in the parking lot. For fans of Formula One, the BMW Pit Lane park in the Gold Lot outside the Convention Center is as close as many will get to an F1 car in the US now that the Grand Prix at Indianapolis is...
...age gallery var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/autos/Cadillac_Provoq_Concept_debuts_at_CES_2008'; Following the introductions of the Chevrolet Volt and Opel Flextreme during 2007 auto show season, Cadillac is bringing forth a third design based on the...
...er will be taking the stage here at the Sands convention center to deliver the first keynote by a car company executive in the 41 year history of the Consumer Electronics Show. Once the speech starts we'll be bringing you full coverage right here so ...
...ck Wagoner held a discussion with a group of us flacks to answer all of our questions clearly and completely without equivocation. OK just kidding, he did hedge on a number of questions as would be expected of any major executive, especially one head...
... While last year the theme among custom-car builders was overwhelming gaudiness, this year someone must have written a rule mandating at least a little class.We expected to see automotive LCD screens installed in more places than is acceptable, and w...
...specially telling that one of the biggest products at the show was Sync, by Ford and Microsoft.In 2008, CES gets even more friendly with the auto industry by inviting GM CEO Rick Wagoner to be a keynote speaker. It will be the first time in CES's 40-...
...some exclusive playtime with the Sync, the infotainment progeny of the Ford and Microsoft partnership.After the jump, you can view the first installment, as Ray Wert sits down with one of Ford's techy PR people for a demo and comes away more than jus...
...inging, all-dancing wonderunit for your car. But, unlike their competitors, the Alpine unit's portable GPS module goes inside instead of on top of the head unit.Alpine's IVA-W205 has every electronic gadget you need in your dash, and at the push of a...
...hile Popular Mechanics magazine gave SYNC their Editor's Choice award. While at CES we got a personal demonstration of the technology from Scott Porter, lead program manager for Microsoft Auto. The system did everything it is advertised to do, from t...
...... but if that is too passe' for you, why not consider the Hornstones FX-550? First seen at CES, this device allows you to play almost any audio file that can be transferred via USB as your honk. The FX-550 can store eight songs or audio files at a ...
...ith a scandal that included bribery, sex, and corruption. No, Dallas wasn't making a comeback, it was automotive giant VW and the scandal involved 2.5 million dollars in payoffs to VW Works' Council Chief Klaus Volkert and another $500k to Volkert's ...
...some exclusive playtime with the Sync, the infotainment progeny of the Ford and Microsoft partnership.After the jump, you can view the first installment, as Ray Wert sits down with one of Ford's techy PR people for a demo and comes away more than jus...
...the high-profile, high-tech goodies reported in all the mainstream magazines, but if you stroll the halls, there's no telling what a car guy will run across...What's Honda's Asimo doing up there? Well Honda gave the robot its very own display. (If on...
...ated in a collaboration between Volkswagen's Electronics Research Lab, Google and the graphics chip maker, nVidia, was shown at CES that incorporated the images from Google Earth into a navigation system that is as close to 3-D as it gets. Traditiona...
...hange in consumer electronics and cars. So, while your vehicle has a useful lifetime of, say, ten years, the embedded electronics systems will seem dated by this time next year.One alternative is to use a PC-based system, where an open architecture a...
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