Learn in the textbookIoT in Automobiles and Mobility
DefinitionA connected car (コネクテッドカー) is a car that uses its onboard communication function (通信機能) to link to external servers and send and receive data.
ExplanationThe car itself becomes one of the IoT devices on the internet, sending driving records and its own condition and receiving traffic congestion information and map updates. It can also report an accident automatically, or have its software rewritten remotely after it has been sold.
AnalogyJust as a phone that could only make calls became a smartphone linked to outside services, the car has gone from a machine for driving to a device on the network.
Memory hookConnected means linked, so the name itself reads as a car that is linked to the outside.