Monday, February 25, 2013

GM's LTE-enabled concept car streams live video, but hopefully not while you're driving

Gallery Photo: GM LTE-enabled car demo

GM brought a Cadillac ATS to Mobile World Congress this week. This isn't a run-of-the-mill ATS, though — it's fitted with a number of LTE services billed as "concepts," meaning we may or may not see them when GM starts rolling out LTE on its production cars next year.


The big unknown is pricing


Notably, the services aren't just consumptive — one demo sends live feeds from the car's exterior cameras to an iPad, for instance, so you could keep an eye out for miscreants trying to mess with your ride from the comfort of your home. Another example streams live video from a number of networks — MTV, Fox News, and Lifetime, just to name a few — to the center console of the car. The spokesperson who demoed the system for us mentioned...


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