Shopping for a new car? Check out the infotainment system you are getting

You stay connected and stay informed with Infotainment systems. You need to optimize your purchase by getting a decent infotainment system.

We are seeing enormous changes in the infotainment systems by the many vendors catering to the auto lovers. All most all auto vendors have some kind of infotainment system.

Which is better?

Probably the answer will change from year to year and from every any kind of model changes.

These are some of the recent infotainment systems line up and listed by the consumerreports.org in the order of their likeability.

Not included in the listing follows the Jaguar model that has the latest infotainment system which you will find in the conclusion of this posting taken directly from the Jaguar site.

The Standout
Fiat-Chrysler Uconnect 8.4: 70 percent very satisfied

Very Good Systems
Hyundai Blue Link: 63 percent very satisfied
BMW iDrive: 60 percent very satisfied
GM (Chevrolet, Buick, GMC) MyLink/IntelliLink: 57 percent very satisfied
Kia Uvo: 57 percent very satisfied
Audi MMI: 57 percent very satisfied
Lexus Remote Touch: 56 percent very satisfied

Average Systems
Nissan NissanConnect: 54 percent very satisfied
Infiniti Infiniti Connection: 54 percent very satisfied
Volvo Sensus Connect: 52 percent very satisfied
Mercedes-Benz Comand: 51 percent very satisfied
Subaru Starlink: 50 percent very satisfied
Ford MyFord/MyLincoln Touch: 49 percent very satisfied
Mazda Mazda Connect: 49 percent very satisfied
Honda HondaLink/AcuraLink: 49 percent very satisfied

Back to the Drawing Board
Toyota Entune: 44 percent very satisfied
Cadillac Cue: 40 percent very satisfied




This is what Jaguar is pitching:
THE NEW JAGUAR XE: OFFERING ADVANCED CONNECTIVITY
- All-new Jaguar InControl® infotainment system with 8-inch touchscreen*
- InControl Remote™ enables smartphone control of functions such as door unlocking and engine start
- InControl Apps™ allows users to access Apple and Android smartphone apps through the vehicle touchscreen*
- Optional Wi-Fi connectivity for multiple devices
- Optional laser Heads-Up Display combines sharper images with compact, weight-saving design**

Voice recognition:

Voice recognition will always be a problem unless voice-training is carried out even when the user is not aware. Just a few lines of reading some text will not ensure voice-recognition even 60% of the times. Both Cortana and Siri have failed to recognize voice. AI needs lot more turbo-charging before voice recognition becomes a reality.

Dazzling display of future cars at Tokyo Motor Show 2015

The show will be open for general public  between October 30-November 8 with ticket starting from about $7 to $8. Smart Mobility City 2015 highlighting a combination of Internet of Things, connected cars and smart cities.

Visit the TMS 2015 web site here. You may also get this app from your favorite store:

Some of Toyota's concept car images (images have been cropped) with image sources:

Photo Source: Kazuhiro Nogi/AFB/Getty Images
FCVPlus

 

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Photo Source:Takahashi Aoyama/Getty Images
S-FR

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Photo Source: Kazuhiro Nogi/AFB/Getty Images
Kikai

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More on Kikai


Details here:
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/photos/driving-future-cool-cars-tokyo-motor-show-34795015/image-34797528

http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/wonderful-and-wacky-wheels-at-the-tokyo-motor-show/36/

Does buying a hydrogen powered car make sense? Yes quite a lot:
Mirai from Toyota will be running soon on California roads to start with and you better know how good they are here:
http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1096639_2016-toyota-mirai-hydrogen-fuel-cell-car-a-few-things-we-noticed

Toyota's hydrogen powered car coming to California summer 2015

Do not buy gas! Toyota's hydrogen powered car coming to California summer 2015.

Not long ago some one from the all electrical vehicle technology quipped playing on the word 'fuel cell' that Toyota is pursuing a foolish path in its development of hydrogen powered car.

No one in the right mind would gamble with $165 million and that is what Toyota is using to triple its domestic production capacity for Mirai (appropriately named meaning 'the Future') Fuel cell vehicle. Both corporations and government are interested. Frankly who wouldn't be except Elon Musk.

Toyota will ramp up the production at its Aichi factory. I have visited them, they are bunch of serious guys, don't you carried away by their apparent lack of emotion. They are deadly serious.

Mirai is coming to a distributor near you by Dec 15 assuming you are localized in Japan. Right now the capacity is only 700 vehicles according to this Nikkei news and of course they cannot promise on delivery time.

It is coming to 'Califoooornia' in the summer of 2015. I love to see this 'sumo fight' between Hydrogen and Battery. It expects to sell 3000 in 2017.

Honda will not be left far behind followed by Hyundai, Kia and others.

Guys the storm is gathering!

Older posts:
http://hodentek.blogspot.com/2014/07/battery-powered-car-is-history.html
http://hodentek.blogspot.com/2014/07/toyota-fchv-concept-vehicle.html

Here is the concept car:

Here is the car you can commute with starting summer of 2015: