Control your Aston Martin by voice, touch and motion.

[Jon39]

Some of us enjoy our manual gearboxes. It looks as though the future will be touch your ear for first, say two for second, cough and your washing machine turns on!

News reported:

'Aston Martin could manufacture an electric supercar on behalf of Chinese internet giant Letv after signing a deal to collaborate with the company on connected electric vehicles. Last week the British manufacturer signed a memorandum of understanding with Letv, which has widespread interests in internet television services and consumer electronics.

At the start of 2015, Letv launched LeUI for Auto, an operating system for cars that enables control via voice, touch and motion, in addition to navigation, music streaming, online radio and roadside assistance services. The system is part of Letv’s vision of joining the various products it manufacturers – such as smartphones, televisions and eventually cars – as one connected network.'


This could be a very short topic. You are probably all speechless. -

Edited by Jon39 on Saturday 19th December 22:15

[Quarterly]

Well Jon I've actually been thinking about this today, I was working out how long I might be able to keep my dream car and the answer is that I'm going to enjoy it for as long as possible and one day if I make it to 85 and there are no petrol cars left, I'll be able to continue driving using the technology your talking about. So I'm going to have the best of both worlds, now and in the future. Thats my take on it anyway.

[steveatesh]

I read the same article on Apple News, my immediate thoughts were well that's progress and it is the way the automobile industry is going, so best of luck.

Of course their choice of partner is a difficult one to assess as I have never heard of that company. I only hope they don't go off and decide their own incompatible standard though, it has to be compatible with everybody else and also offer more features or benefits and be equal to or better quality. Everybody has heard of Apple and Google, but this company?

Hopefully the AM accountants will be kept out of it.