CarPlay and Android Auto meet inside the new Honda Accord

CarPlay on Android - Is it real? At Honda believe so.

Last year, Apple introduced CarPlay, technology integration with iOS car multimedia system. Many auto manufacturers, including Honda, announced plans to support the technology in their products. And yesterday was held in Silicon Valley Motor Show, where it was shown the new Honda Accord with CarPlay on board.

It is said that holding the event in Silicon Valley is symbolic, it is as if a nod to the local tech giants are actively cooperating with the automotive industry. New model Honda Accord will go on sale in 2016. By the way, many of the automotive industry have planned the release of their own models of machines with support CarPlay it in 2016.

Multimedia system itself in the new Honda is based on a modified OS Android. So that it is intended to support not only CarPlay, but her rival platform Android Auto. (For comparison, the infotainment system SYNC 3 at Ford created on the basis Blackberry QNX, but the manufacturer promises its integration with CarPlay, and Android Auto.)

Representatives of Honda announced plans of cooperation with Apple in the project CarPlay shortly after the presentation of the new platform in 2014. This happened just a few months after the introduction of their applications in the model Honda Civic 2014 and 2015 Fit System Display Audio with support for iOS. And now their promise to implement. At the auto show yesterday made Frank executioner, head of the US division of research and development Honda ,. According to him, the integration with CarPlay and Android Auto is expected in other models of Honda, although the date of their issue is not specified.

Initially Apple planned to launch CarPlay the work in 2014, but due to the large number of necessary improvements that did not happen. Now the list of partners from among the representatives of the automotive industry, there are 34 brand. But very few of them actually started production of its vehicles with the support CarPlay.

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