The World Wide Web Coming To A Car Near You?

Cars, Trucks, and SUV’s come with the most advanced technology on the market today. Navigation, safety features like backup cameras, heated and cooling seats, bluetooth technology, and remote keyless entry are becoming standard features in many of today’s cars. Does it surprise you to know that the “web” and their apps want to become standard in your vehicle too? I bet it doesn’t. It is a logical next step in automotive technology.

In the future, web-based apps may run your car, truck, or SUV’s engine. It could also allow you to know your car’s speed, or adjust heating or air conditioning. The real question is, will there be standards to having the internet in your vehicle? Will you have to choose an Apple car or an Android car, or will there be one platform for all?

It is pretty inevitable that the internet will be a large part of the car, truck, or SUV of the future, especially in autonomous or driverless vehicles. Since Google is building their own autonomous car, will they be willing to play with Apple when it comes to internet standards in vehicles? The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has created an automotive working group to help create standards for bringing the world wide web and its apps into the automotive market.

With all of this great evolution of the internet into our vehicles, how will automakers, or suppliers of this technology keep us safe? The internet as we know it today is prone to hacking and although there are tools in place to avoid this from happening, it still does. Will our vehicles be vulnerable to internet hacking with more intense integration into our cars and lives? Will the standards include safety features to keep drivers safe?

Time will tell how and when the world wide web will enter a car near you, but we all know for sure that it will happen. Everything we do seems to involve technology and the internet, so it is logical for carmakers and technology companies to want to standardize the internet into cars, trucks, and SUV’s. Although a convenient and useful tool, there is the likeliness that the internet will open the door to our vehicles being hacked in the near future. After all, it has already happened with remote unlock apps for BMW.