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After offering various services for in-car entertainment, it looks like we may soon see Internet access made available in cars. Actually, many car enthusiasts got a glimpse of it at the Geneva Auto Show where ATX presented this new potential technology for vehicular possibilities.

In a presentation scheduled for 5:30 p.m. CET on March 4, 2009 at the Fully Networked Car forum held in conjunction with the Geneva Auto Show, Arnaud de Meulemeester, ATX Europe managing director, will detail the initial steps toward defining the attributes needed to communicate to in-vehicle devices. ATX and the CVTA will seek to recruit interested, European entities to help lead the initiative. ATX, which already enables Web connectivity to select vehicles in Europe, also advocates the creation of a specific top-level domain — “.car” (dot-car) — to help ensure safe Web browsing in the vehicle.

CVTA is organizing a working group that will include automakers, suppliers, technology firms and content providers, for the purpose of developing a framework that would apply to embedded, in-vehicle and mobile Internet devices. Some of the issues the group will examine include what kind of content should be accessible and how it would be displayed; minimization of driver distraction through the use of speech technology; firewalls, viruses and other related issues and components of Internet delivery.

(Source) ATXG