The Jaguar Land Rover has announced the release of justDrive, an application that integrates several applications in a single smartphone platform activated by voice instructions.
Developed by the company CloudCar ™ based in Silicon Valley, Jaguar Land Rover has optimized justDrive for your InControl ™, compatible with Android phones and Apple iOS8 platform. The ‘justDrive for Jaguar Land Rover’ applications and integrates popular services like Spotify, Twitter and Yelp, among others, to provide drivers of Jaguar and Land Rover a level of unprecedented connectivity services such as navigation, information services and media communication, social interactions, and surveys by voice, reducing driver distractions to a minimum.
The justDrive will join the 17 apps that are already integrated in the information system and inflight entertainment InControl Apps for Jaguar Land Rover as Stitcher, iHeartRadio and Parkopedia. will be freely available from the beginning of 2015 and will provide services to drivers and applications up to date during the life of the vehicle.
The justDrive uses one of the world’s most advanced package for recognizing voice commands in simple language so that clients can communicate naturally with your vehicle, rather than using simple syntax commands. Intelligent justDrive system takes care of finding the best results for the requests of a user between different applications and services installed. This way, the driver does not need to specify for example that the system will search for the nearest gas station, you can simply ask the justDrive showing you the route.
The driver can dictate and send an SMS or a tweet saying simply: “Tell George I’m going to be late,” and the justDrive reads the contents of the message before sending it. You can also ask to play a specific song and justDrive will understand.
To support the future development of innovative technologies for information and entertainment, Jaguar Land Rover opened its first R & D facility outside Europe, specifically in Portland, Oregon.
The Open Software Technology Center, with a cost of 3 million dollars, will focus on the development and application of advanced connectivity technologies and leading the development of future systems of information and entertainment Jaguar Land Rover.
The facility, with an area of 1,400 m2, have a creative media room, dedicated to innovation spaces a development laboratory and a workshop for six vehicles. Has a team of about 30 specialists in information and entertainment, including 16 highly qualified software engineers.
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