{"id":61960,"date":"2009-12-03T19:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T00:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/03\/la-2009-hands-on-with-mercedes-benz-new-telematics-apps\/"},"modified":"2009-12-03T19:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T00:59:00","slug":"la-2009-hands-on-with-hughes-and-mercedes-benzs-new-telematics-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/61960","title":{"rendered":"LA 2009: Hands-on with Hughes and Mercedes-Benz&#8217;s new telematics apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/la-auto-show\/\" rel=\"tag\">LA Auto Show<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/etc\/\" rel=\"tag\">Etc.<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/tech\/\" rel=\"tag\">Technology<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/mercedes-benz\/\" rel=\"tag\">Mercedes-Benz<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/12\/hughes-la-630op.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p> Hughes Telematics recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/11\/17\/mercedes-benz-and-hughes-release-app-based-mbrace-telematics-f\/\">announced its partnership<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/make\/mercedes-benz\/\">Mercedes-Benz<\/a> on the automaker&#8217;s new line of &#8220;mbrace&#8221; mobile telematics solutions. The system, which connects mbrace-equipped vehicles with an app installed on the user&#8217;s Apple iPhone or RIM Blackberry, allows people to lock and unlock their doors, contact roadside assistance, get in touch with a local dealer or find their vehicle in a crowded parking lot. It&#8217;s a relatively trick technology that we spent some time with at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/la-auto-show\/\">LA Auto Show<\/a>, and there&#8217;s plenty of potential on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/03\/la-2009-hands-on-with-mercedes-benz-new-telematics-apps\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>LA 2009: Hands-on with Hughes and Mercedes-Benz&#8217;s new telematics apps<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/03\/la-2009-hands-on-with-mercedes-benz-new-telematics-apps\/\">LA 2009: Hands-on with Hughes and Mercedes-Benz&#8217;s new telematics apps<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:59:00 EST.  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The system, which connects mbrace-equipped vehicles with an app installed on the user&#8217;s Apple iPhone or RIM Blackberry, allows people to lock and unlock their doors, contact roadside assistance, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61960","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}