Monday, May 14, 2007

Telematics - possibilities are endless

I was watching TV the other day and saw an ad for Chevy uplander and i could not believe my ears, it comes with a 40 GB harddisk, yes a car with a harddrive where you can transfer all your music, photos, maps. wow that was cool.

All along i have seen only hardbook laptops embedded in cop cars (don't ask me how i come to know about cop cars !!!!)

But the field of telematics is picking up very fast, the ability to have computers and cars together is telematics. It is not very easy as it sounds because cars in US undergo several climatic changes, severe cold and severe hot weather changes and the computer has to withstand all those. Even if we leave the digital camera in the dashboard it becomes severe cold during the night, then how are we to put a hard disk inside the car (that is quite a challenge, and lot of shocks to withstand during travelling in backroads and in highways).

But great chevy has done it, 40 Gigs of harddrive in the new 2007 Chevy uplander.

The new cars have quite a lot of features like,
1) My friends new car has keyless entry (you may ask whats new, the new feature is, all you need is to keep the key in your pocket and just walk to the car and it automatically opens), yes i know what is your next question i too asked him the same, how do you lock it then , answer is simple you walk away with the key in your pocket and it automatically locks.
2) The Bluetooth is embedded inside the car, so if you receive a call on your cell you can answer it in your car speakers. (wow thats cool as long as you dont answer private calls in front of other passengers :)
3) Now hard disks inside cars,
4) Push button ignition.

Atleast it makes sense to have hard drives, otherwise burning 12 songs in a audio cd and having a hell a lot of cds does not make any sense, and if you have an ipod then you have to buy a FM transmitter for an ipod and then the ipod mobile charger, etc etc, after all it is so simple all you need is a usb slot to transfer mp3 to your car and listen it on the way. 40 Gigs is a good amount of space to have a good collection of songs.

Wait i want more, why dont we also put a wireless network card in the car, so that i can browse my home wifi from car and move all the mp3 files. (well this too is not so far and it would happen some day).

Why women rule the world !!!!!!!!!!!!!

I got this video from a good friend and i could not stop laughing seeing the logic the baby uses, may be it is true, that is why women rule the world :)