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Telematics technology has enabled the emergence of carsharing services such as Local Motion, Uber, Lyft, Car2Go, Zipcar worldwide, or City Car Club in the UK. Telematics-enabled computers allow organizers to track members' usage and bill them on a pay-as-you-drive basis. Some systems show users where to find an idle vehicle. [15]
A telematic control unit (TCU) in the automobile industry is the embedded system on board a vehicle that wirelessly connects the vehicle to cloud services or other vehicles via V2X standards over a cellular network.
Telematics 2.0 is the name for the Internet of things-based telematics technology for the automotive industry. [1] Telematics 2.0 utilises smartphone-based sensors rather than the black box devices used in the traditional pay as you drive insurance industry. Telematics 2.0 solutions reached the consumer market in 2012/3 with solutions being ...
Telematics car insurance programs offer discounts up to 40% for letting insurers monitor your driving habits through a plug-in device or smartphone app, but the savings come with important privacy ...
This technology keeps a conversation with the driver and analyzes what the driver is saying and how s/he is saying it. It can recognize fluctuations in the driver's voice to determine if the driver is sleepy, upset, or in a good mood through different vibration patterns in the driver's speech.
The technology is not completely specified, so critics have argued that manufacturers "could not take what’s in this document and know what their responsibility will be under the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards". [31] PKI (public key infrastructure) is the current security system being used in V2V communications. [32]
A fleet telematics system (FTS) allows the information exchange between a commercial vehicle fleet and their central authority, i.e., the dispatching office. A FTS typically consists of mobile Vehicle Systems (VS) and a stationary Fleet Communication System (FCS).
Dedicated short-range communications (DSRC) is a technology for direct wireless exchange of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) and other intelligent transportation systems (ITS) data between vehicles, other road users (pedestrians, cyclists, etc.), and roadside infrastructure (traffic signals, electronic message signs, etc.). [1]