线程： 丰田和微软联手

丰田和微软联手制定雄心勃勃的下一代远程信息处理系统，将对手 GMs 安吉星和福特我福特同步服务，将允许客户使用他们的智能手机与汽车车载电子系统进行交互。

丰田和微软投资关于美元 1200 万丰田媒体服务公司，丰田汽车 丰田汽车行业客户提供数字信息服务的附属机构。这两家公司的目标是帮助开发和部署远程信息处理应用程序在基于云计算的 Windows Azure 平台上，从 2012 年开始用丰田电动和混合动力车。目标是，到 2015 年，将提供负担得起和先进的信息技术服务到丰田汽车在世界各地的客户建立一个完整的全球云平台。

丰田公司还说作为其智能电网活动，旨在实现通过有效利用能源，一个低碳社会的一部分，它进行其丰田智能中心试点计划，计划要链接人、 汽车和住宅综合控制的能源消耗在日本试验。丰田认为，作为电动和插电式混合动力车成为更受欢迎，这种系统将越来越多地依靠远程信息处理服务，实现高效率的能源管理。

在过去的雷克萨斯使用安吉星服务为其所有者和更多最近丰田切换到所选模型使用 atx 板型组。

我想知道是否我们将看到更多的汽车公司挂钩与其他高科技的领导人，像苹果和谷歌，来共同开发这些先进的通信系统，可以用于应用程序如导航、 充电、 远程解锁和管理的汽车信息娱乐系统的远程控制。

Toyota and Microsoft have joined forces to develop an ambitious next-generation telematics system that will rival GMs OnStar and Fords My Ford Synch services that will allow customers to use their smart phones to interact with a cars onboard electronic systems.

Toyota and Microsoft are investing about $12 million in Toyota Media Service Co. , a Toyota Motor Corp. subsidiary that offers digital information services to Toyotas automotive customers. The two companies aim to help develop and deploy telematics applications on the cloud-based Windows Azure platform, starting with Toyotas electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles in 2012. The goal is to establish a complete global cloud platform by 2015 that will provide affordable and advanced telematics services to Toyota automotive customers around the world.

Toyota also says that as part of its smart-grid activities, aimed at achieving a low-carbon society through efficient energy use, it is conducting trials in Japan of its Toyota Smart Center pilot program, which plans to link people, automobiles and homes for integrated control of energy consumption. Toyota believes that as electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles become more popular, such systems will increasingly rely on telematics services for achieving efficient energy management.

In the past Lexus used OnStar services for its owners and more recently Toyota switched to using ATX Group for selected models.

I wonder if we will see more auto companies hook up with other high tech leaders, like Apple and Google, to co-develop these advanced communications systems that can be used for applications such as navigation, remote control of charging, remote unlocking and managing of a cars infotainment systems.