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Car-controlling wearables showcased at CES

For making the vehicles more user-friendly for the drivers of the present day, the car manufacturers across the world are incorporating lifestyle hardware while manufacturing the automobiles.

Various types of latest car apps were introduced at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show by the leading international automobile manufacturers, which include Hyundai, Audi, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz. These apps allow the car owners to get connected with their vehicles and control those even from a considerable distance.

Controlling a car with a wearable

While car manufacturers have been working on creating different types of user-friendly apps for the last few years, 2015 has seen these apps connected to ‘wearables’ for the first time. Effectively, it means car owners will wear a watch or a band rather than carrying a smartphone.

The concept of wearables is exciting - you have those smart watches touted as wearables all along, but that's not what defines wearables. Wearables can be anything, as long as you can wear it and drivers can keep them in their purses, handbags or pockets. What makes smart watches as wearables popular is that everybody loves to wear watches and they are easy to carry.

About smart watches as wearables

These apps are meant only to let the cars being controlled conveniently by the drivers. So this time the automobile companies worldwide are looking for something that is technology based, this type of hi-tech products being in high demand as evident from the global scenario. The launch of the Android Wear gadgets and the Apple Watch as well will also make people quickly habituated to wear the wristbands that have a Dick Tracy look.

The most revolutionary innovations have been introduced by BMW, has included some extraordinary features in the i3 electric car, which is a production of BMW. This BMW car can be controlled remotely with the BMW iRemote software as well as with a smart watch from Samsung. Advantages, of using these devices, range from turning on the air-conditioner to keeping track of the battery usage. All functions are possible with the help of these devices, which work on voice recognition and also through use of a touch screen. BMW is also carrying out research works to find out different means of using the watch for locking and unlocking the doors of the BMW cars with mere hand movement of a hand. According to BMW, for its

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private car owners these tech-based applications are going to increase the ease of controlling their vehicles. The Drive Now program initiated by BMW is also going to be benefitted by these tech-driven applications.

Hyundai is also working on finding out the advantages that the drivers are going to get by using the wearables, its research being inclusive of how a smart watch can be useful for a driver. Thus, it can be concluded that a smart watch will turn out to be more user-friendly for a driver than a steering wheel. The smart watch will also have a fitness app, keeping a record of the heart rate of the person wearing it. Being connected with the car's system, it will also stop the vehicle and if it can detect any serious change in the pulse rate of the user, and will call for emergency medical help.

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Original article can be found at Cars guide.