Big Data on cars

Every car produces a lot of data in the course of driving, which is usually available only to vendors-but what if they can also be used by owners? A Ford engineer recently developed an intelligent speed-changing lever using sensors and 3D printing technology, which automatically prompts the owner to switch gears when the data is collected from the vehicle's driving.

Zach Nelson is a Ford's senior engineer. He loaded the sensor and the motor that had been removed from an Xbox handle into his 3D-printed speed lever, then wrote the program to the Arduino Development Board via Ford's own OPENXC platform, and finally the DIY lever would vibrate at the right moment to remind the driver to switch gears- At the same time improve your driving skills and fuel efficiency.

The key to this realization is the OPENXC platform. This software platform allows developers to use the driving data that Ford collects to develop devices or app--. Essentially, we can think of it as a vehicle API. The benefits of sharing these data with developers are obvious.

The advantage of Nelson's design is that it increases fuel efficiency through large data, and secondly, we see a screen that alerts users to shift in some of the top-grade vehicles-but Nelson's vibration design reduces the driver's attention to distraction

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)