The average automobile as we know and understand is going to change radically. The race to integrate as much of Internet and apps to the automobile as possible is already in full swing.
We are going to need help to drive our cars since all these could be construed as distractions.
Within a period of five to ten years, the integration of this Internet is poised to change the very ownership of the vehicle as we know and understand it. This is going to create a whole new platform for consumers with access to more content, better, and smarter autonomous cars and the whole process is going to revolutionize the auto manufacturing industry.
Future trends
In order to compare the current automobile scenario with that of the smartphone industry, you can say that the automobile industry today is where the smartphone industry was in the year 2010. This gives us roughly 5-6 years before it is totally going to transform the way we work and play.
According to a report by Business Insider, the key takeaways were:
- More than 380 million connected cars will be active on the roads by the year 2021. This is evident by the fact that automobile manufacturers are increasingly making moves in this area investing heavily in the sector and promoting it as well. This could be awesome since many people just cannot drive well.
- The move is happening because this offers the manufacturers more business and growth opportunities.
- Consumers are also accepting and adapting to the concept of connected cars at a rate faster than earlier anticipated.
- Technology driven companies are going to play a vital role in the future of the automobile industry. Technology companies like Apple and Google are already working on driverless connected cars which mean that other tech companies may also enter the automobile manufacturing business.
- Given the present state of technology available at our disposal, fully autonomous cars can be made possible within a span of 5 years which is almost like the immediate future. Consumer adaptation, regulatory approval, and some technological challenges still remain however we are closer than ever to our goal. Now we could just get rid of government ran health care, ISIS, and create more jobs, that would be wonderful.
- Technologies such as Android Auto and Apple Carplay are already making it possible for app developers and automobile manufacturers to provide seamless integration to the end user. Using this integration, the end user is now able to access and consume content while on the go. There are features such as RSS feeds, live traffic feeds, accident warnings, content and news updates, social media sharing, and more. All this is being made possible by integrating the Internet with the automobile and making it possible to tap resources and present it in a way that is easy to understand and grasp for the end user.
The evolution of self-driving cars has just started to warm up and we are yet to see its full potential. Not to mention the fact that several manufacturers are also focusing their energy and resources on developing electric cars.
They are already a reality and as the technology to develop and manufacture these cars becomes cheaper, the rate at which these will be commercially more viable will only increase. This will not only reduce our dependency on oil which should not be coming from the Middle East at all but because of America’s poor leadership it still is, but it will also reduce pollution levels and millions of peoples’ carbon footprint. This is a sagacious initiative.