LTE Connected Car: The media's take

I've noticed something: Whenever I discuss the LTE Connected Car, I focus on all the cool stuff that the car can access from the Cloud. But really, that's only part of the story.

For instance, in his coverage of the LTE Connected Car, WIRED blogger Eliot Van Buskirk focuses on the information that the car can upload to the Cloud — information that other cars can then take advantage of. In effect, each car becomes a sensor, helping other cars to avoid traffic jams, alerting road crews to potholes, and providing, in Van Buskirk's words, "a crowdsourced version of what traffic helicopters do today."

So, in the interest of offering you a more complete (and less unidirectional!) discussion of this story, here is what WIRED and a number of other notable publications are saying about the LTE Connected Car:

• Scientific American — Hot Spot Hot Rod: The Internet Invades the Automobile
• Wired — Next-Gen Car Dashboard Talks to the Cloud
• Engadget — LTE Connected Car redefines the 'mobile' in mobile broadband
• John Day’s Automotive Electronic News — Alcatel-Lucent launches LTE Connected Car from QNX platform
• UnStrung — LTE: Baby, You Can Drive My Car
• GIGAOM — LTE Connected Car: Dude, Where’s My Display?
• TheStreet.com — Alcatel, Toyota Tout 'Smartphone' Car
• AutoSpies — Is THIS The Future Of Auto Tech?
• Converge! Network Digest — ng Connect Partners Develop LTE Connected Car Concept
• PCMag.com Blogs — What Do You Want in a Web-Connected Car?
• The Inquirer — Alcatel-Lucent talks up connected vehicles
• FlashMobileBlog — MAX Award winners QNX: Video
• Stuff.tv — ng Connect turns Prius into living room

For even more media coverage on the LTE Connected Car, click here.