To encourage more people to shift to electric vehicles, Mayor Herbert Bautista recently signed an ordinance exempting alternative fuel powered vehicles from number coding in Quezon City.
With nearly 2.7 billion smartphones in the hands of global consumers today, and more than 5.5 billion projected by 2018, it?s no surprise that consumers are increasingly more aware of and opportunistic about them integrating seamlessly in their vehicles.
Car and ride sharing is just one example of the new on-demand economy allowing real-time matching of supply and demand through connected smartphone applications.
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has published a ?whitelist? of mobile phones that are compatible with Bluetooth-enabled hands-free telephone systems in vehicles.
By 2020, there will be a quarter billion connected vehicles on the road, enabling new in-vehicle services and automated driving capabilities, according to analyst firm Gartner.
A member of the House of Representatives is seeking a congressional inquiry that will look into the establishment of a unified electronic toll collection system in the tollways and expressways in Luzon as a way to solve traffic jams caused disparate e-payment systems.
According to analyst firm ABI Research, Mercedes-Benz, Volvo, and BMW continue to comprise the top three players in the consumer Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) market.
Kabataan party-list representative Terry Ridon has called for an inquiry into the alleged illegal operation of the mobile app ride-sharing service Uber, which was stopped recently by the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB).
