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Jaguar Land Rover is developing a technology that will allow drivers to record their journeys and share them across the internet.
The project will allow drivers to take live footage from cameras inside and outside the vehicle, edit them together on the vehicle’s touch screens and then share the footage on social media.
JLR is working to develop the technology with US specialist video technology firm Vonsor.
“This is completely in tune with the social media generation. People of all ages love to capture their experiences on their smartphones and share them,” said Justyn Baker from Vonsor.
“The system allows you to save both your on and off-road driving adventures, with cameras integrated in the vehicle filming anything from wheels articulating over an obstacle, to the whole family having fun inside the car whilst driving along. Vonsor would allow you to collate all of that footage, edit it together and post it all from the vehicle’s touchscreen – so everyone can share the experience.”
Jaguar Land Rover is putting a big emphasis on what it calls the connected car, delivered through advances in software engineering.
The new Jaguar XF features an InControl Touch Pro infotainment system that has additional functionality over existing vehicles.
For instance, the system can inform drivers of the weather at their destination – and it will allow drivers to send their estimated time of arrival to a friend. The car will then automatically keep the contact up-to-date with journey progress via SMS should traffic conditions change and delay the journey. Once the car gets within 200 metres of the intended destination, Approach Mode will share 360 degree street-level view imagery to help the driver navigate at the end of the journey.
This connected car capability is delivered through a combination of a 60GB Solid State Drive, which is around 100 per cent faster than a typical hard disc drive, and the first automotive use of Intel’s high-performance Quad-Core computing and graphics processor.
Jaguar Land Rover is also the first vehicle manufacturer to integrate its infotainment architecture with an ultra-fast Ethernet network. This connects all the modules in the system and operates at an exceptional data transfer rate of up to 1Gbit/second, enabling InControl Touch Pro to handle the enormous amounts of data transfer required of a next generation infotainment system.