The Last Inch at 70 Miles Per Hour

  • Authors:
  • Tj Giuli;David Watson;K. Venkatesh Prasad

  • Affiliations:
  • Ford Motor Company;Ford Motor Company;Ford Motor Company

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Pervasive Computing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The telecommunications industry has made great strides toward solving the last-mile problem in delivering Internet services to consumers.However, considerable challenges remain in solving the last-inch problem: delivering services from vehicle-based computers to theirdrivers and passengers. Effectively solving this problem requires careful computing, communications, and cognitive design to contend withthe automotive domain's significant safety issues and resource constraints. Such constraints dictate small displays for users who mightbe interacting with applications while driving at highway speeds. This article examines last-inch challenges through the lens of thenonfunctional requirements security, privacy, usability, and reliability (SPUR). It also presents a service-oriented middleware solutionand describes its implementation in a demonstration vehicle.This article is part of a special issue on Intelligent Transportation.