Comment on The web economy will chopshop the car industry

Stowe Boyd, GigaOM
Tue, 01/05/2016 - 7:49am

The web economy will chopshop the car industry

A few news stories make it clear that the venerable automobile industry is going to wind up sliced, diced, and consumed by the new economics and technologies of the web, and in short order. Ford has announced that it’s working with Amazon to integrate the Alexa virtual assistant service that runs on the Echo smart speaker and Fire TV devices, so that we can turn the on the lights in our homes with a voice command from the car, or start the car as we walk out the back door in the kitchen. Ford is also integrating with Wink, the smart home hub company formerly an arm of Quirky purchased by Flextronics when Quirky filed for bankruptcy in 2015. I get an odd pleasure thinking of an automobile as an extension of the smart home, like a thermostat or washing machine.

 

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