Spotify, Pandora, Apple Music
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The connected car of the future will not come with CD player. Why would it, when you can stream music from your favorite music service? CDs just get scratched anyway. It’s hard to believe that ten years ago we still sold cars with cassette decks. Today the CD player still makes its way into dashboards, but those days are numbered. Many systems already facilitate internet-based music, not in the way where you need your smartphone either. It’s in the dashboard. In two years, these systems will be standard.
Car Networking
(Source: networkworld.com)
Cars that talk to cell towers or satellites are will be cool. Cars that talk to each will be even cooler. In a matter of years, cars will communicate with each other. Why would cars want to chat? Imagine you’re changing lanes, but the car two lanes over is swerving into your opening to avoid some debris on the freeway. In many of these scenarios, you might collide. In cars of the near future, the swerving car would have already advised your car. Your car would react before you knew what was happening. Some call this vehicle to vehicle or V2V communication. Cars will not only speak to each other but stationary objects like street signs or beacons, communicating safety issues, known as V2I communication.