Foursprung: PC substituting embedded in-car systems

It's not really news that the product lifecycles of vehicles and those of eletronics are not really compliant.
A vehicle has a lifetime of several years but for electronics it takes much less (in fact it is nearly just some days) to be antiquated.
This now came also to industry's mind. A solution for this comes from MP3Car. Their "Enabler" hardware unit allows a PC to completely replace the functionality of a conventional car stereo or nav system, providing all the essential in-car functions lacking in PC hardware, including car-quality audio, FM receiver, satellite radio and hands-free Bluetooth phone integration.
But hardware is only one thing. The important thing for this is the software which is called "Streetdeck" in case of MP3Car.
Streetdeck provides a full set of in-car functionality, including:

- Touch Screen Control
- Navigation & Mapping
- Bluetooth Phone Integration
- Satellite Radio
- Vehicle Diagnostics
- Rear-view Camera Support
- CD player/MP3 Extraction
- MP3 Player
- FM Radio
- DVD/Video Player
- Picture Viewer
- WiFi Sync Support

Sounds not bad but is still one step behind. Foursprung people would not integrate a PC to their car but a Mac.


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Source: Autoblog

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