Looks like everybody wants to get into the phone-car convergence game including Hughes Telematics an OEM technology supplier to Chrysler and Mercedes. By 2010, Hughes Telematics will debut its next-generation technology, which would allow drivers to install software in their cars, just as iPhones let users download applications to their handsets.
Some of the expected features are:
- An application that could track your peregrinations and estimate your total carbon emissions.
- Remotely starting a car
- Resetting its alarm with an iPhone
- Unlocking the doors with an iPhone (commands could be sent to the car over the Internet)
- Cars equipped with blind-spot-detection video cameras could be programmed to take a picture of anyone near the car during a break-in and then e-mail it directly to a cellphone or computer.
