Android-powered infotainment coming to cars from Nissan, Renault, Mistsubishi

Kimberly Adams Sep 19, 2018
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Android-powered infotainment coming to cars from Nissan, Renault, Mistsubishi

Kimberly Adams Sep 19, 2018
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There was some big news this week in the auto and tech industries, which are increasingly overlapping. The world’s largest automotive partnership, the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance, which sold more than 10 million cars around the world last year, is going to start embedding Google’s Android operating system in its cars starting in 2021.  The promise for consumers?  Infotainment systems that do more and are less, shall we say, buggy. 

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