During the Las Vegas’ Consumer Electronics Show, the new-vehicle protection Blue Link Telematics technology has been launched by South Korean car making company, Hyundai for its upcoming cars of 2012. The Blue Link Telematics is all-in-one infotainment system for car that provides various intriguing and standard features like e-mail, voice-activated web browsing, and texting as well as Eco-Coach system.
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Actually, Hyundai’s new standard featured Blue Link Telematics will be appeared in the new 2011 Hyundai Sonata and the new Veloster three-door coupe. The automaker has also planned to shift this features in the new youth focused model that will be introduced before summer. Blue Link Telematics will be reachable around the almost North American through the 2013 car’s model.
The Blue Link is engineered with thirty customary connectivity features, so Hyundai users can get seamless connection for connecting the office, home, smart phone and automobile through speedy and steadfast IT technology.
Latest Blue Link Telematics technology offers three layers that include Blue Link Assurance package, the Blue Link Essentials package and the Blue Link Guidance which will be serving many help and extra technical support for car users.
Its wide-ranging features include a remote ignition function, voice-guided navigation, a restaurant finder, the facility to share vehicle location on a social-network site and a monitor that will let your parents know how fast their kids driving. Its internet connected services include web browsing, texting, and an Eco-Coach system which helps to driver drive green and roadside assist functions.
The Blue Link Assurance package is basic plan of the Blue Link Telematics that consists of Automatic Crash Notification (ACN) and it offers notifications with assistance from real, live operators at the time of automatic crash. The system has also SOS button appeared beneath the rear-view mirror just for providing on demand emergency service and roadside assistance. By the vehicle’s ability all of these features are aided to send its location and other data to the call center, and best of all it is done without any help of the driver’s cell phone with OnStar.
As second layer, Blue Link Essentials functions by means of a web portal and mobile applications, the drivers will be able to allocate their vehicle’s location through e-mail, SMS, or Facebook. Some neat vehicle-diagnostics features are also filled in by this essential layer and when the car throws an error code among these features it will inform your dealer with the details and also allow them for ordering parts on required condition. Its speech-to-text potential lets you to send and respond for text messages by a paired cell phone. Just by the calling a toll-free number or in an old-school touch, through the app or website, the remote feature such as door locking or unlocking and engine starting can be activated.
Valet-alert, speed-alert, and geofencing functionalities are also available in this package for offering the notifications while the car has passed very far from a decided location and missing an already defined area, or even it is being driven very fast. Its other features include stolen vehicle recovery, stolen vehicle slowdown, vehicle immobilization, maintenance alert, and recall advisory.
The Blue Link Guidance is third layer of the Blue Link Telematics as a group of navigation features. Navigation features include a voice recognition system based POI web search, turn-by-turn (TBT) navigation service, information alerts on your daily travel with traffic information, eco-coach, restaurant ratings, weather information and gas station locations and gas prices.
With newest Hyundai’s system Blue Link Telematics, the users will get the voice recognition by real people. Voice recognition is voice-based interaction. For the Blue Link’s demo, Hyundai used Sonata Hybrid during the Las Vegas’s Consumer Electronics Show.
While the presenting the new telematics package, the director of customer satisfaction and service business development of Hyundai Motor America, Barry Ratzlaff expressed, "We've studied how drivers rely on smart phones and navigation systems as a link to the outside world. Blue Link brings that connectivity to the car with technology like voice texting and POI download, turn-by-turn navigation, and vehicle health reporting. In typical Hyundai fashion, we've developed package options that are both thoughtful and cost-effective."
The cost of the system is still uncovered; however Hyundai will offer free trials on all the packages, with the Essentials plan probably lasting the longest.
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