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Car Tech - Audi A3 is first to 4G

2014-03-27
for our purposes one of the most interesting thing about this new Audi a3 is happening right here in the dashboard that's what it looks like a tablet toaster popping up out of the center dash and one of the headlines on this car is the fact that's got a 4G connection how do you sing the first production vehicle to get a 4G connection that's coming out this year and so it's using that 4G connection to get all this map data from Google and also these Street view images and everything they load really fast you can search the paloma from here vos died in the button on the steering wheel and going online search and then sang a restaurant name for example that'll likely send off that request to the internet so that you can search for a much more updated list of destinations than what you'll actually have built an into what i believe is 64 gigabytes of data they also were telling us about the picture book navigation this is sort of a novel feature where your friends can send you a photo of where they are and as long as that photo has GPS data embedded in it you can actually receive that photo loaded to your car and then that will become your destination that outie made their system very modular they're trying to get away from the five to eight year product cycles that nvidia chip it's the whole system on a chip and it's on a board that just pops right out the radio is on a board that just pops right out for the LTE connect so a two year that they decide they want to jump up to Tegra 3 or ter Heide or whatever we're using at that point it's very easy for them to upgrade the system in this vehicle without re-engineering the entire car so we're going to be seeing out a moving a lot faster than they've already been doing to make as far as like we're pushing the technology or that's got a stray excited
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