i just read a little more about the "track your friend" option and, aside from the comparative drag racing that it will induce, it seems like a cool little feature. undoubtedly, users of the new version will be chomping at the bit to get a real, fast data-type plan (wimax or cell radio) built into the NIT's to take full advantage of this feature.

this can also help when stranded due to auto failure. one could possibly diagnose the issue, stop at the auto parts store to pick up the needed parts and meet up with the person who is stranded. kinda like a custom "on-star" without the governments ability to hack into it...

Yeah brendam,

There's a lot of good, personal and comercial use for that. It would be great to see fleet controlling and monitor on the go, security usages, convoy of friends with live communications so on and so on

Marcelo

Regarding "track your friend," that should be a Canola feature. It sounds more of a Social Networking feature.

Reggie : yeah, but the track is more for Imagine you're going together to a place where only your friend ahead of you knows the way. The traffic can make you lose each other, so what if your device (Canola+Carman Edition) "Navigates" using him as guide

Marcelo

to that track your friend point, there is also the possibility of mesh based real-time traffic data, if an open, platform independent architecture could be formed.

Yes brendan, that would be the ultimate, but then I think it's a little bit bigger than we could handle ourselves... but with carman reamining fully opensource, maybe if a community forms around it can make it happen

Marcelo

Well, if you have the two points (friend ahead) and your location, I guess a usual generate direction query can be performed. I see the point of using a different route though to avoid traffic.

Another case if you are in a certain meeting place, you can query how far are your other 10 friends from you, or who among your relatives are within a 5km radius.

Looking amazing. Shame its released in August though, got a long road trip in 3 weeks and would of loved to take it with me. Maybe I can be a beta-tester handful?

Really looking forward to this, but I have a question: Will this be compatible? http://tinyurl.com/5q2p9p ? The OBD2 adapter they recommend is quite expensive.

I've been trying to find out about this one here

Not had any success with finding anyone to say yes/no yet though.