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As part of its OpenXC announcement, Ford and Bug Labs showed off the Fuel Efficiency Challenge, which allows drivers of Ford Sync-enabled cars to share their fuel efficiency with others.
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SAN FRANCISCO--Ford wants developers to create a broad array of connectivity applications that can be used in conjunction with its cars, and it launched its OpenXC platform Monday to promote that effort.
In an announcement at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference here, Ford and its partner Bug Labs unveiled OpenXC, a platform designed to allow third-party developers to create any number of open-source hardware or software products that will interact with Ford's Sync system.
The idea, said K. Venkatesh Prasad, the senior technical leader of Infotronics at Ford Research and Innovation, is to make it possible for outside developers to design new ways to extend the usefulness of the Sync system, which today is installed in more than 3 million Ford vehicles.
Essentially, Bug Labs CEO Peter Semmelhack suggested on stage at Disrupt, OpenXC is a plug-and-play system that will bring the power of Sync application developmen... [Read more]
