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The author:(作者)delvpublished in(发表于) 2013/11/8 9:51:42 GM built cars into the wheel on the Smartphone
GM now networking vehicle does not show distinctive features in networking, but it is estimated that this fall when it might bring some surprising strength to the world. GM is aggressively upgrading its in-car information and entertainment systems, and promised to provide a large number of automotive applications.
Held at the CES show in January this year, Ford and GM are showing their respective Internet car open development program, but on how to make the plans, practices are very different from the two companies. Announcing the net car after the opening up and development plan, Ford immediately starts to Sync AppLink platform, "building blocks", and constantly release new applications, but GM has been nothing. In addition to the commitments will be in 2014 on new models this autumn addition to publicly display the latest achievements of the development team of the company, it is the only move that opened up new Developer Web site registration service.
While GM's has remained silent, but at its headquarters in Detroit, a lot of projects is being carried out step by step. GM's head of developer ecosystem, Nick Pudar (Nick Pudar) recently accepted media interview, he gave a detailed picture of GM are connected, the project's ambitions and grandiose plans. GM intends to develop community open to future Chevrolet, Buick, and Cadillac vehicles.
GM's vision of the link cars are not just a music download service and location-based service application added to the car's console, but plans to engines, automotive data and even its OnStar in-vehicle information systems available to the developer community. That means that application developers will be able to further inside GM, understand its underlying technologies, like a Smartphone application developers to learn more about an Android or iOS device as the core features.
Now, General Motors, pitifully small number of available applications, just a handful, but according to Pudar, GM had already attracted more than 22,000 more than the developer, ready for GM's vehicle information system development and application, this would be beneficial for GM to be an important part of things. We just sit and wait for a few months on the line.
A thoroughly improved platform
Pudar pointed out that one of them is on top of its GM will abandon a vehicle information platform of despair. Chevrolet continues to use MyLink platform, Cadillac will continue to use the Cue platform, Buick will continue to use the IntelliLink platform, but they won't run on a separate operating system. Pudar, after developers developed applications can run on all models of in-vehicle information system.
Pudar said: "you can either select a species for certain models such as Cadillac, but actually it is not a necessary condition for all future applications can support all models. "Cue system is GM's most advanced systems, powerful processing power and features are abundant, it is not for the Chevrolet and Buick. GM will actively encourage developers to design something that would live up to the advantage of these features.
Pudar said GM Smartphone will also remove the link in the overall development plan, smart phones are connected cars in the development plan of the future will just be a networking channel. Now, Cadillac and Chevrolet cars running many applications still rely on smart phones and a component of the car itself. For example, the Pandora application on your phone will be connected to the Pandora optimized interface on a car. With Ford Motor to run a dual-platform solution coincides with its Sync system, and it certainly has some advantages. Every two years we are going to buy a new smartphone, but the frequency of our new car certainly will be much slower.
GM intends to turn cars into a self-sufficient device, this will certainly lead to greater risks. Users will be able to access app store from the car's console, support all the prerequisite software will be downloaded to the local storage space of the car. First, the connected car of the link will be fully implemented via smartphones, but starting from the 2015 model, GM will begin to connect with the AT&T network LTE chip embedded in all of its cars in, to provide users with more link options.
But the makeover-improving mean new applications will not be compatible with older versions of the in-vehicle information systems. GM's latest Internet automotive strategy is forward-looking, but it also means that everything must start from scratch.
Bus network
GM, through an application programming interface (API) open to developers of its in-car Infotainment system, but that's not enough. Pudar said the company is developing a second set of API, allows developers to access its remote communication services.
This means that developers will be able to break out of the car to develop applications, or develop applications from inside the car. Now some applications via a button to open the car door, they can tell the user who was driving his car, bound for elsewhere, and summarizing different models of car arrival time, or even adjust the settings for entertainment and air-conditioning.
GM to use car-sharing service RelayRides is a good example. InStar for users of this service can unlock smartphone users set up for auto locking system, but if a car-sharing service or car rental service providers take advantage of GM API, they'll be at a particular moment will Auto adjust the settings for a specific user's favorite State. Those applications can open the lock when the user approached the car and start the engine, and you will find navigation destinations and has been pre-installed into Internet radio.
General Motors future cars and in-vehicle Infotainment system is more than just a snappy, it intends to link the car firmly embedded in the Internet of things, so that it can communicate directly with the user and the surrounding environment.
Apple developed way with Android Comparison of development method
GM may want to create an open environment, so that any developer can readily use it, but this openness has limits. GM app store would eventually become a controlled app stores, automotive applications approved threshold threshold is much higher than a Smartphone application approved.
Pudar, each application must meet the following two principles:
1, it must comply with the provisions of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to distracted driving. What's that mean? Automotive application that is pending approval cannot be video application, unless it was prepared for another passenger in the car. All actions that would cause the driver's eyes or long stays on the Dashboard screen cause motorists to hands from the steering wheel is not allowed.
2, each application must note on the cars it will collect that information, how we use that information, and it will provide what level of access other application and service. Running too fast and are likely leaked drivers privacy and could jeopardize car security applications will not be approved.
GM will be how to implement these principles? To test each application individually. Pudar, GM has already recruited a large number of evaluation to test the car in Detroit. The simple network audio streaming application will soon be able to be approved, but if the application is more complex, and you will get more attention. Pudar, said: "if it is a very complex application, it may take a few days to test. ”
For those who meet the principles of core services in direct competition with GM applications? Pudar cautiously said that he cannot guarantee that General Motors will approve every application meet the requirements of the core principles, but he added that the limit trying to protect GM's own application behavior is detrimental to the production of third-party applications.
Pudar said GM wanted to encourage rather than stifle innovation in automotive sector. He said: "GM may have some hesitation in certain application, but we've got only self-sufficiency can be finally succeeded. ”
GM is really doing, for example, it has been approved for Apple's Siri Eyes Free voice services into their car. So there is actually a very big risk, its rival Ford Motor did not want to do so.
通用汽车现在的连网汽车还并未在连网方面表现出鲜明的特点，但是估计到今年秋季的时候，它可能会给世人带来一些意外之喜。通用汽车正在大刀阔斧地改良其车载信息和娱乐系统，并且承诺会提供大量的车载应用。
在今年1月召开的CES展会上，福特和通用汽车都展示了各自的连网汽车开放开发计划，但是就如何实现计划来说，两家公司的做法却大相径庭。宣布连网汽车开放开发计划之后，福特立即就开始为其Sync AppLink平台“添砖加瓦”，不断发布新应用；但是通用汽车却一直毫无动静。除了承诺会在今年秋季在其2014年新款车型上公开展示公司开发团队的最新成果之外，它的唯一举动就是开放了新的开发者网站的注册服务。
虽然通用汽车一直保持着沉默的态度，但是在其底特律总部，很多项目正在按部就班地进行之中。通用汽车开发者生态系统主管尼克普达尔（Nick Pudar）最近接受了媒体的采访，他详细地描绘了通用汽车在连网汽车项目上的雄心壮志和宏伟计划。通用汽车打算向开发社区开放未来的雪佛兰、别克和凯迪拉克等车型。
通用汽车设想的连网汽车并不仅仅是将音乐下载服务和基于地理位置的服务应用添加到汽车的控制台上，而是计划将引擎、汽车数据甚至其OnStar车载信息系统提供给开发者社区。那意味着应用开发者们将能够深入通用汽车的内部，了解其深层技术，就象智能手机应用开发者能够深入了解一款Android或iOS设备的核心功能一样。
现在，通用汽车可用的应用数量少得可怜，简直屈指可数，但是据普达尔称，通用汽车已经吸引到2.2万多名开发者，时刻准备着为通用汽车的车载信息系统开发应用，这将有利于让通用汽车成为物联网的一个重要组成部分。我们只需静静地再等几个月就行了。
一个经过彻底改良的平台
普达尔指出的其中一项首要之务是，通用汽车将放弃令人绝望的车载信息平台。雪佛兰汽车将继续使用MyLink平台，凯迪拉克将继续使用Cue平台，别克汽车也将继续使用IntelliLink平台，但是它们不会再在各自独立的操作系统上运行。普达尔称，开发者们以后开发的应用将能够在所有车型的车载信息平台上运行。
普达尔称：“你可以随心所欲地选择一款针对某种车型比如凯迪拉克汽车的应用，但是其实那并不是一项必要条件，以后所有的应用都能支持所有的车型。”Cue系统是通用汽车最先进的系统，处理能力强大，功能十分丰富，这都是雪佛兰汽车和别克汽车所没有的东西。通用汽车将积极鼓励开发者去设计一些能够发挥出这些功能的优势的应用。
普达尔说，通用汽车还将把智能手机从连网汽车的整体开发计划中去掉，智能手机在连网汽车未来开发计划中将仅仅是一种连网的渠道。现在，凯迪拉克和雪佛兰汽车上运行的许多应用仍然依赖于智能手机和汽车本身的一个组件。比如，用户手机上的Pandora应用将可以与汽车上的Pandora优化界面相连。那种双平台的解决方案与福特汽车运行其Sync系统的方式不谋而合，它肯定有一定的优势。虽然我们每隔一两年就要换一部新的智能手机，但是我们更换新汽车的频率肯定会慢得多。
通用汽车打算将汽车打造成一种自给自足的设备，这种做法肯定会带来更大的风险。用户们将可以从汽车的操作台访问应用商店，支持应用的所有必备软件都将被下载到汽车的本地存储空间中。首先，连网汽车的连网将完全通过智能手机来实现，但是从2015年的车型开始，通用汽车将开始把与AT&T的网络相连的LTE芯片嵌入其所有车型之中，为用户提供更多的连网选择。
但是，这种改头换面式的改良意味着新应用将不能兼容旧版的车载信息系统。通用汽车最新的连网汽车战略固然是高瞻远瞩的，但它同时也意味着一切都必须从零开始。
汽车内外皆连网
通用汽车将通过一套应用编程接口（API）向开发者开放其车载信息娱乐系统，但是那还不够。普达尔称，公司正在开发第二套API，可以让开发者接入其远程通信服务。
这意味着开发者们将能够脱离汽车来开发应用，或者从汽车的内部来开发应用。现在已经有些应用能够通过一个按钮来打开汽车车门，它们可以告诉用户谁在开他的汽车，开往什么地方，并且总结归纳出不同车型的汽车抵达目的地的时间，甚至调整娱乐功能和空调的设置。
通用汽车使用汽车分享服务RelayRides的方式就是一个很好的例子。这项服务的用户可以用InStar解开用户利用智能手机应用为汽车设置的锁定系统、但是如果一项汽车分享服务或租车服务商充分利用了通用汽车的API，它们就能在特定的时刻将汽车调整到特定用户最喜爱的设置状态。那些应用不但可以在用户走近汽车时打开车锁和发动引擎，而且你会发现导航目的地和网络收音机都已经被预装好了。
通用汽车未来的汽车并不仅仅是一款时髦的车载信息娱乐系统，它打算将连网汽车坚决地嵌入物联网当中，让它可以直接与用户和周边环境通信。
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通用汽车也许想要建立一个开放式的环境，让任何开发者都能欣然使用它，但是这种开放是有限度的。通用汽车应用商店最终将成为一个受控的应用商店，汽车应用的批准门槛将比智能手机应用的批准门槛高得多。
普达尔称，每一款应用都必须满足以下两条原则：
1、 它必须符合全国公路交通安全管理局对分心驾驶的规定。那是什么意思呢？就是说待审核的汽车应用不能是视频类的应用，除非它是为车上的另一位乘客而准备的。任何可能导致驾驶者的眼睛长时间停留在仪表板屏幕或导致驾驶者双手脱离方向盘的应用都是不允许的。
2、 每一款应用都必须说明它将从汽车上收集那些信息、如何使用那些信息以及它将为其他应用和服务提供何种程度的访问权限。运行速度过快、有可能泄露车主隐私以及有可能危及汽车安全性的应用都不会获批。
通用汽车将如何实施这些原则呢？它将逐个去测试每一款应用。普达尔称，通用汽车已经在底特律聘请了一大批评测员来测试汽车应用。那种简单的网络音频流应用很快就能获批，但是如果应用比较复杂的话，就会得到更多的关注。普达尔称：“如果它是一款非常复杂的应用，可能就需要几天的时间来进行测试。”
至于那些符合原则但与通用汽车的核心服务构成直接竞争的应用呢？普达尔谨慎地说，他不能保证通用汽车一定会批准每一款符合核心原则要求的应用，但是他补充说，试图保护通用汽车自己的应用而限制第三方应用的行为是不利于生产的。
普达尔说，通用汽车想鼓励而不是扼杀汽车领域的创新。他说：“通用汽车在某些应用上或许会有些犹豫，但是我们已经明白了，只有自力更生的人才能获得最后的成功。”
通用汽车确实是这么做的，比如它已经批准苹果的Siri Eyes Free语音服务进入其汽车。这么做其实是有很大的风险的，它的竞争对手福特汽车就不愿意这么做。
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