{"id":181396,"date":"2010-01-14T14:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T19:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/01\/14\/hughes-telematics-takes-us-for-a-ride-with-mercedes-latest-mbra\/"},"modified":"2010-01-14T14:27:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T19:27:00","slug":"hughes-telematics-takes-us-for-a-ride-with-mercedes-latest-mbrace-tech-demonstrates-onstar-in-a-box-wvideo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/181396","title":{"rendered":"Hughes Telematics takes us for a ride with Mercedes&#8217; latest mbrace tech, demonstrates &#8216;OnStar in a box&#8217; [w\/video]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/ces\/\" rel=\"tag\">CES<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/tech\/\" rel=\"tag\">Technology<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/01\/14\/hughes-telematics-takes-us-for-a-ride-with-mercedes-latest-mbra\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"4\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/01\/hughes-20100110-1024-28-630.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><small>Click above to watch video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/01\/14\/hughes-telematics-takes-us-for-a-ride-with-mercedes-latest-mbra\/\">after the jump<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<p>\nYou may not have heard of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/tag\/hughestelematics\">Hughes Telematics<\/a> before, but this offshoot of the great Hughes empire provides the tech that, amongst other things, powers Mercedes&#8217; latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/tag\/mbrace\">mbrace<\/a> technology, Benz&#8217;s response to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/tag\/OnStar\/\">OnStar<\/a>. But that&#8217;s not all they do; the company is working on its own advanced infotainment system for the car, and also showed off a system informally called &#8220;OnStar in a box&#8221; &#8211; an easy-to-install device that will let you track exactly where your car is at any time, how fast it was going, and even what kind of mileage it was geting at the time. Somewhat more troubling, it also could allow others access to the same information, people like your insurance company. Good stuff, or Big Brother with an OBDII connection? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/01\/14\/hughes-telematics-takes-us-for-a-ride-with-mercedes-latest-mbra\/\">Read on<\/a> to find out.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"postgallery\">\n<p><strong>Gallery: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/hughes-telematics-next-gen-tech-at-ces\/low\/\">Hughes Telematics next-gen tech at CES<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/hughes-telematics-next-gen-tech-at-ces\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/01\/hughes-20100110-1024-01_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/hughes-telematics-next-gen-tech-at-ces\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/01\/hughes-20100110-1024-02_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/hughes-telematics-next-gen-tech-at-ces\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/01\/hughes-20100110-1024-03_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/hughes-telematics-next-gen-tech-at-ces\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/01\/hughes-20100110-1024-04_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/hughes-telematics-next-gen-tech-at-ces\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/01\/hughes-20100110-1024-05_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/01\/14\/hughes-telematics-takes-us-for-a-ride-with-mercedes-latest-mbra\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>Hughes Telematics takes us for a ride with Mercedes&#8217; latest mbrace tech, demonstrates &#8216;OnStar in a box&#8217; [w\/video]<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/01\/14\/hughes-telematics-takes-us-for-a-ride-with-mercedes-latest-mbra\/\">Hughes Telematics takes us for a ride with Mercedes&#8217; latest mbrace tech, demonstrates &#8216;OnStar in a box&#8217; [w\/video]<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:27:00 EST.  Please see our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weblogsinc.com\/feed-terms\/\">terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;\"><\/h6>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/01\/14\/hughes-telematics-takes-us-for-a-ride-with-mercedes-latest-mbra\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent link to this entry\">Permalink<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/forward\/19311594\/\" title=\"Send this entry to a friend via email\">Email this<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/01\/14\/hughes-telematics-takes-us-for-a-ride-with-mercedes-latest-mbra\/#comments\" title=\"View reader comments on this entry\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: CES, Technology Click above to watch video after the jump You may not have heard of Hughes Telematics before, but this offshoot of the great Hughes empire provides the tech that, amongst other things, powers Mercedes&#8217; latest mbrace technology, Benz&#8217;s response to OnStar. But that&#8217;s not all they do; the company is working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":254,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}