Smart Phones To Replace Your Car Dashboard

Technology continues to make huge improvements in what it can do in our lives. We have seen so much integration that one wonders where it will go next. You may have to look no further than the car that you drive to see your smart phone or tablet being integrated into your transportation. I am not talking about plugging a connection into your smart phone so that you can listen to music. Nor am I talking about taking features of the OS and integrating them into your console. The future holds many things for us and having your smart phone as your dashboard in the future may be what it holds. And some are coming much closer.

There are already kits available where you can plug in your tablet or smart phone into the dashboard to become your music and/or navigation system. As an example, the Visteon system which lets you put your iPad in your car dashboard or the Devium which lets you integrate your smart phone into your dashboard. But, those are add ons to your car and are not truly integrated into your car.

The future holds much more promise than that for you. Imagine a time where you snap your smart phone or tablet into your dashboard and it becomes the dashboard for your car. That is what the future holds for us. And it may not be that far away. A recent example coming is the Smart eBike which will have a place to plug in your iPhone. And once plugged in, it becomes the dashboard for the electric bike. That is the integration coming in the future and is not that far off. As shown in the picture, the smart phone shows the battery level and speed as it is now connected to the electric scooter. The eBike with smart phone integration is scheduled for delivery in the US in 2014 and with that, we expect to see the ability to use many different smart phones as the electric bike dashboard.

We can expect to see more electric scooters coming with smart phone integration in the next few years where you plug your smart phone into a dock and it becomes the dashboard for your use. It will not be too much longer before we will start to see some of the same uses for mobile technology in electric cars or even gas powered vehicles. The integration between our mobile devices and our transportation is not that far away. The future integration of what we carry with us each day with how we move about is the wave of the future.