 Audi pumps on-the-go personalized Net radio into concept model ·Nov 29, 12:48 PM From What Hi-Fi?: “An Internet radio station in your car, able to tailor its programming to your own musical tastes – that’s just one of the features built into the Audi Cross Cabriolet Quattro concept car… “The Bang & Olufsen system streams radio via the car’s mobile internet link, and as a result of the car’s occupants “And there’s more to the sound system, and the car’s Internet facilities, than that. To get over the old problem of wind noise in even the best-designed convertibles, the Cross Cabriolet Quattro uses microphones in each of its headrests to feed an intercom connected through the sound system, so occupants’ voices are amplified to enable conversation to be continued.” It’s being shown by the company at the Los Angeles Motor Show, which opens to the public this week. The car’s Internet link also feeds the navigation system, which uses mapping from Google Earth, and thus has photorealistic 3D maps of one’s location and destination.
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