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hey charts regard from Andhra Authority of what's going on everybody and I'm here with Rob from Hyundai and automotive is a big story here at CES and no less than having Nvidia talk about their console and their particular type of platform do we have a lot of manufacturers like Hyundai coming to events like Pep come which we are here at right now live at CES 2015 but Rob here wanted to show me a couple of iterations that they have that involved the Android platform not just Android auto but an Android wear app that he will be showcasing in a little bit but I did have a couple of questions for you about your guys's implementation of Android auto Android auto being a platform that nearly every manufacturer can use what is the way that Hyundai is changing the way that Android auto is perceived and the use in the eyes of your manufacturer right well we're really proud of our work with Android auto and really how we differentiate ourselves we're one of the first to market we've been working since the announcement of Android auto very close with Google and one of the ways that we really see Android auto benefiting our customers and shoppers is in how we're bringing navigation to where really navigation wasn't available before it was always seen as a high trim item of more of a premium feature with Android auto and our announcement recently a display audio where we're going to be providing head units have screens with no CD players no built-in navigation software where you can bring your own navigation through Android auto or car play so we really see our differentiation and we're gonna bring Android auto and navigation to the masses by having a really high access you know a high volume products so here you can you know just like any Android wear app you can go in there and just select it manually or you can ask you can tell Google you know start blue link and it'll divert into our blue like app and our blue link app is really an extension of our Android app for you know for your mobile phone and you can access all the features of a blue link through this Android wear app and so we've got you know remote start door lock door unlocked remote stop you can flash the lights if you're looking for a car in a parking lot you can flash the lights and honk your horn if you're looking for a car you can find your car and it'll get actually located on GPS call roadside and these are all these will execute commands on your phone you just start dialing and we also have voice commands within so you can just tell unlock my car and it'll dive into the unlock menu and it'll actually send an unlock command and my car is actually a couple hundred miles away in California right now and I'm just sending an unlock command in the parking lot so it's really cool it's fast we've have a calculator flat form that makes it really fast and easy to do this and you can divert it in so you know one of our most popular features of blue link is remote start so making it as easy as possible to use for our our owners can only make the experience even better so blue link is it's a telematics platform which means it's a connected car platform so all our vehicles that have blue link have built-in modems whether it's a 4G LTE modem or something a little different we we had the lincoln MKT for about three years now and it allows our owners to access about 30 different features safety convenient so for example crash notification if your car gets in an accident it calls you know and ask for help also from a service standpoint with blue link you can actually schedule a service appointment we're one of the only automakers that has full and an integration with like a dealer appointment book where you can use bullying schedule an appointment for like an oil change and it knows the actual open times and it's all done through the cloud all right so you just saw in that the one segment the actual application on his one plus one for Android obviously but I did have a couple questions now that we went through that oh by the way one of the really cool features that I saw in there was the ability to send your route or the directions straight to the car so they're ready the moment you get in I know that was really cool anyway bluelink is it only a Hyundai system that's available that's correct it's a it's a built in from the ground up we have built it it's it only works on Hyundai vehicles it's available on all our models except the accent so we have we want to give everyone access to these amazing cooling features for safety reasons and for convenience reasons so is it something that this is a question for a couple of my friends who owned Hyundai's can it be retrofitted into cars that or no it cannot be able to need to come because it's so tied into the electronics of the car there's actually a a modem and a telematics unit that talks to the systems in the car so it's pretty deeply wired in there and the final question that I had with Android auto becoming the platform by which a lot of a lot of these consoles and a lot of these driving aids are going to be blue link I'm guessing is going to have some sort of integration in with that right yeah so we we see all our systems working together right Android auto is really an infotainment platform that allows us to really enhance that experience while driving we see blue link as another way for us to enhance ownership experience so we feel that without all these things together it really creates an awesome driving experience immersive experience for our customers we got a nice rundown of the Android wear application blue link on the actual Android platform itself and then Android auto will be coming in the next couple days so make sure you guys stay tuned here for all of that and even more coverage Rob thank you so much man it was great to see you and great to hang out with you we're here at pep comm at CES 2015 make sure you stay tuned for android authority your source for all things Android