Connected cars

Honda’s vision of how people will work, travel and spend leisure time in the future will help expand its business beyond cars, lawn mowers and motorcycles. The efforts are a key component of Honda’s “2030 Vision” to broaden the definition of mobility and to improve peoples’ daily lives.

Drivers of Ford and Lincoln connected vehicles will be able to opt in to letting Arity score their driving data for UBI purposes.

Company also is expanding reach beyond best drivers in order to draw more into UBI.

Drivers would earn small sums for sharing data on everything from traffic congestion to weather and be debited for infrastructure use and contribution to pollution.

Membership fee will cover registration, taxes, insurance, maintenance and unlimited mileage.

As auto insurers and manufacturers look to help people drive safer, some users are getting frustrated and disabling the solutions.

Large, interactive touch-screens are becoming increasingly prevalent in passenger cars.

European Union member states scrapped new rules mandating WiFi technology as the basis for how future connected cars talk to each other.

The latest Escape features an optional 8-inch dashboard touch screen, 4G wi-fi connectivity and semi-autonomous safety features like automatic emergency braking.

A new ordering platform will be preloaded on millions of “connected” cars starting this year, through a partnership with Xevo Inc.,