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Motorists Could Soon Need to Fuel-up With Data

Data volumes are ever increasing and at an unprecedented rate.

Connected and autonomous vehicles will further add to the amount of data that’s currently out there. It’s hard to imagine how much data will be created over the next decade but data will become more vital to our everyday lives – even more so that it is today.

“I don’t think we can even imagine how much more data we are going to create with data-driven automobiles, and it is not just cars we are talking about here”, says David Trossell, CEO and CTO of Bridgeworks before rightly claiming that “it’s about everything that traverses our highways and byways…” He feels that the intelligence gleaned from this data will in time push companies such as Facebook into the background. “However, unlike Facebook, the data is going to be spread across various silos, so accessing or collecting this vast amount of data is going to be a challenge – not only from a transportation point of view, but also from a security perspective.”

Find out more, read the complete article by Graham Jarvis.

Published by TU Automotive on 5th October 2018. 

Global Protection for Consumer Data Will Sell UBI

Graham Jarvis explores how connected services can attract customers to the benefits of UBI.

Published by Tu Automotive on 14th August 2018. 

Making Tomorrow’s Auto Tech Safe Today

Graham Jarvis assesses the cyber-security risks of emerging autonomous technology.

Published by TU Automotive on 7th August 2018. 

Building Automotive Security from the Inside Out

Explore the role of telematics in locking hackers out of vehicles. 

Published by TU Automotive on 26th July 2018. Author: Graham Jarvis. 

Broad Business Models Most Likely to Triumph in Mobility

How to bet on the mobility winners of the future, explored by Graham Jarvis.

The automotive start-up scene, symbolised by Silicon Valley, is booming. Yet there is much talk about how you can spot the unicorn that will disrupt the mobility, connected and autonomous vehicle markets beyond recognition.

“Historically, what Silicon Valley has done well is to financially encourage a range of technical and commercial approaches to create better solutions given the advances in enabling technology and evolving market conditions”, explains Damien Scott, chief commercial officer at Renovo.auto.

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Published by TU Automotive Magazine on 16th June 2018.  

Insurers Begin Batting Their Digital Eyelashes

The move being made to make insurance digitally attractive is investigated by Graham Jarvis.

Published by TU Automotive magazine on 27th April 2018. 

Insurers Begin Batting Their Digital Eyelashes

The move being made to make insurance digitally attractive investigated by Graham Jarvis.

Published by TU Automotive magazine on 27th April 2019. 

Lights, Action and Enjoy the Driverless Ride

BIS Automotive predicted in a report that the global in-vehicle entertainment market will reach a total market value of $52.2Bn ($37.6Bn) by 2022. The report, Global In-Vehicle Infotainment Market, Analysis and Forecast 2017-2022, was announced in a BIS Research press release in May 2017 and claims that the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) will be 7.5% during this period.

James Manning Smith, a research analyst at Futurescope, explains this growth potential saying: “With autonomous driving technologies set to make the car the next living room, entertainment companies are exploring new technology and services to entertain passengers”.

“Once Level 4 or 5 autonomous driving technologies are perfected and accepted by consumers, key differentiators such as in-car choice will become the entertainment experience, over the driving experience. This provides an opportunity for audio and entertainment companies to innovate bringing more immersive entertainment technology to the car, whilst car manufacturers are challenged to stay competitive bringing the right entertainment technology to the cockpit.”

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Published by TU Automotive magazine. Author: Graham Jarvis

‘One Policy’ Driverless Insurance is the Aim

While the British government, among other across the globe, is putting its faith in an autonomous vehicle future, consumers are maintaining a certain degree of opposition to this technology. Southampton University reported in September 2017 that it had joined forces with comprethemarket.com to future-gaze, and they found that 73% of Brits oppose driverless cars because they believe they could malfunction.

A further 72% of the respondents claimed that they couldn’t trust a computer with car safety (and that’s even though many people fly on holiday in fly-by-wire aircraft that use information technology for this purpose). Subsequently, 68% of them want to have full control of their vehicles despite the industry-proclaimed improvements in safety of autonomous driving...

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Published by TU Automotive Magazine on 2nd March 2018.  Author: Graham Jarvis. 

World’s Biggest Economy Poses EV Challenge

Most of the world’s top carmakers now want to make electric vehicles (EVs) the mode of transport to choose. The Washington Times reported that a race has begun for EV dominance and the newspaper suggests that this trend could firmly put China in the driving seat because the country is the world’s largest car market.

Peter Morici, an economist and business professor at the University of Maryland claims the Chinese have also created “savvy government policies”. So with Trump repealing Obama-era legislation such as the $7,500 (£6,352) tax credit, which helped to stoke up consumer demand for electric vehicles, it’s widely thought that the advantage goes to China.

Speaking about the repeal of the tax credit by the Trump administration in the US, Sahand Malek, Strategy consultant, Ptolemus Consulting Group. Comments: “For consumers to consider switching from traditional powered engines to all-electric and plug-in hybrid car, the US federal income tax credit is a great motivation.” However, the oil industry’s lobby is quite strong in the US and, to a certain extent, it views electrification as a threat to its existence. After all, the key focus of any support is EVs on the reduction of harmful emissions from diesel and petrol engines...

But is the the technology self-limiting? Find out, read the complete article. 

Published by TU Automotive magazine on 9th February 2018. Author: Graham Jarvis