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A Third Of New Cellular Customers Last Quarter Were Cars (recode.net)

Posted by msmash on from the connected-things dept.

Ina Fried, reporting for Recode: With the U.S. smartphone market saturated, most of the growth in the cellular industry is actually coming from other kinds of devices including tablets, machine-to-machine connections and lots and lots of cars. In the first quarter, for example, the major carriers actually added more connected cars (Editor's note: amounting to a 32 percent capture) as new accounts than they did phones.

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  1. Every Parents' Worse Nightmare by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 4, Funny

    They were allowed to drive themselves. Now they have cellphones. Won't be long before they're at the drive in, making out and having babies.

  2. Re:Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    So the car can send telemetry data back to the manufacturers to let them know what you're doing to the car so they can reject warranty claims. (See the story about the Tesla that auto-drove into a truck.)

    I mean, to enable exciting new features like live updated maps and traffic in the in-car navigation system and things like in-car wifi! Totally not to constantly spy on you and everything you do!