Chapter 6
Infotainment
The way drivers and passengers interact with their vehicles and vice versa has evolved for many years and will continue to do so. It all began with simple vehicle radio and audio systems adapted to meet the needs of drivers and passengers in the vehicle environment. Later, other services got added, such as Germany's vehicle driver's radio information system for receiving traffic announcements from radio stations in the mid-1970s. Telematics features were added to these entertainment and news applications with the emergence of global positioning systems (GPS) in the 1990s. The radio data system (RDS), which got later renamed traffic message channel (TMC), implemented through radio broadcasting, followed in 1998 and made ...
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