How Do You Build (And Ship) The Car Of The Future?

Friday, August 31, 2012 How Do You Build (And Ship) The Car Of The Future? A decade ago, phones made phone calls and not much else. These days, they do everything. Cars are now on the same trajectory. Everything from voice control entertainment systems, App stores, complex GPS and traffic warning computers are no near-standard on many cars -- and it's only going to get more complex: talking carsConnected cars? Self-parking (or even self-driving) cars? It's all coming. And Dr. Pim van der Jag, managing director of the Ford Research Centre in Aachen, is one of the men who has to build it all. As the head of R&D in Europe, his job is to find and build the best tech in modern vehicles, and find a way to bring it to market. And now Ford Europehas unveiled its first UK vehicle with Sync and MyFord Touch in 2013's Electric Focus - his job is bigger than ever: find what's next, make it work, and get it to into the showroom. We caught up with Dr. Pim van der Jag at this year's IFA conference in Berlin, to find out what the future holds for cars - and how it involves Phil Collins. Are Apple And Google Suing For Peace? IFA 2012 Round-Up: Sci-Fi TVs, Massive Phones And Windows 8 Everywhere Nasa 'At A Loss' On How To Fix Jammed Bolt On Space Station PEW PEW: Atari Re-Releases Classic Titles For Free Survey: Nobody Knows What Cloud Computing Is BLOG POSTS X PRIZE Foundation: New Software Can Diagnose Parkinson's Disease Simply By Listening To Your Voice Software like Apple's Siri that responds to your voice is convenient and incredibly cool, but what if a similar kind of voice analysis could diagnose disease? Robert J. Elisberg: Live from IFA Berlin: New Tech in the Old World If the maniacal zoo every year of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is Disneyland for adults, then IFA Berlin is Christmas in August. Creative Bloq: Are Designers Falling Out of Love With the iPhone? Before millions of people bought iPhones and iPods, and before MacBooks and Airs became the laptops of choice for discerning users, it was designers who spent their days plying their trade on Apple products. And in those days when Windows-loaded PCs stook on or under virtually every desk, it was designers that kept Apple in business. So what problem could designers possible have with Apple? Marc Leibowitz: Breaking the Mould: How to Build a Discovery Engine In the beginning, there was search. With the rise of Google and its competitors in the early 2000s, search became the primary way of locating relevant web content. But this method of information retrieval has its limitations, requiring users to provide a highly specific query and have a clear idea of their wants and needs. Jackie Barrie: "Hooray for Hashtags!" I heard an ad for Money Supermarket on the radio the other day, whether the voiceover included the expression: "Hashtag epic". Yes, he actually spoke the word "hashtag".

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