{"id":371,"date":"2014-12-30T23:22:54","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T04:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thriftyautoship.com\/?p=371"},"modified":"2014-12-30T23:22:54","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T04:22:54","slug":"dawn-connected-car-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thriftyautoship.com\/dawn-connected-car-era\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s the Dawn of the Connected Auto Era!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tBelieve it or not, Mark Fields, Ford\u2019s CEO remembers being treated like a Neanderthal back in 2007 when he joined Bill Gates on stage at the <a title=\"Consumer Electronics Show\" href=\"http:\/\/www.autonews.com\/article\/20141230\/OEM06\/312309994\/connected-cars-overtake-video-games-at-ces\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Consumer Electronics Show<\/a> in Las Vegas to introduce the connected car. The show is known for cutting-edge phones and video games and at that time most insiders could not understand why a person who was known for being involved with just cars would be at a convention such as this. The answer is here and now because the upcoming show in January will feature cars with touchscreen dashboards and other components that are able to be controlled by smart-watches.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thriftyautoship.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/connected-car.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-542\" src=\"https:\/\/thriftyautoship.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/connected-car.jpg\" alt=\"connected car\" width=\"135\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fields is making a triumphant return as Ford&#8217;s CEO, where he&#8217;ll deliver a speech about the dawn of the connected-<a title=\"car\" href=\"https:\/\/thriftyautoship.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">car<\/a> era. &#8220;We&#8217;ve come a long way from a single auto on a carpet,&#8221; said Alan Hall, a Ford spokesman who manned that first basic booth. 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