Mapbox Launches Dash: Beautiful In-car Navigation, Live Traffic, Streaming Music All-in-one Application
April 19 2021 - 08:15AM
Business Wire
Enables car makers to fully own location experience by offering
customization options
General Motors first car maker to adopt Mapbox Dash through
app-based in-car navigation system, Maps+
Mapbox today announced the launch of Mapbox Dash, a customizable
lane level navigation system for cars. Dash allows automakers to
control every aspect of the navigation experience, including the
map and UI design, and offers lane level guidance, live traffic,
speed limit warnings, voice integration, rich places search, AR
navigation, mobile integrations and more. It supports integrations
into custom services like parking, fuel, AI assistants, and
streaming music. Mapbox Dash is available to car makers as a
subscription service with continuous feature updates throughout the
lifetime of the application.
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Customized versions of Mapbox Dash.
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“With Mapbox Dash, we are delivering the best of both worlds for
our customers: an integrated application with an excellent and fast
‘out of the box’ experience for Android and Linux, and a
customization option through the Mapbox platform to create a unique
OEM brand experience aligned with drivers’ needs. We believe great
applications are built around customer feedback, and our team is
continuously updating Dash with frequent new releases that
incorporate driver feedback and ensure we are offering the most
up-to-date and personalized platform to our customers,” – said
Peter Sirota, Mapbox CEO.
General Motors (“GM”) is the first car maker to adopt Mapbox
Dash through the launch of its Maps+, a connected in-car navigation
application built on Mapbox Dash. On April 30, Maps+ is expected to
begin its rollout to approximately 900,000 compatible vehicles as
part of select Connected Services plans. For the rollout, drivers
will be able to upgrade their existing vehicle to include a full
featured in-car navigation system with a simple over the air
software update.
“Mapbox Dash delivers an efficient and smooth customizable
foundation for our digital location ecosystem and enabled us to
launch Maps+ within months with an over-the-air update to the car.
With Mapbox Dash we can create a customized navigation experience,
by creating a completely GM specific design and integrating a
vehicle-specific voice assistant, streaming music, and other
services,” said Santiago Chamorro, Vice President, Global Connected
Services at GM.
GM will launch an initial version with a distinct look and feel
for their Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac brands. The navigation
system will include lane level guidance, live traffic and
incidents, Electronic Horizon for speed limit alerts, Alexa
integration, rich POI search with ratings, pictures, and opening
times. The application suggests gas stations when the car is
running low on fuel and finds parking at the destination with a tap
on the parking button. The search function stores favorite
destinations and past destinations on drivers’ private accounts
reducing starting a trip to known destinations to few taps on the
screen. A convenient widget on top of the map offers audio controls
for direct access to audio apps and FM/AM.
Mapbox Dash - Built on the Mapbox Platform
Mapbox Dash’s one-of-a-kind architecture allows car makers to
quickly launch and integrate vehicle-specific functions. This
reduces the launch time of new applications — from discovery
session to customer release — to as fast as only a few months.
Mapbox Dash accomplishes this by building on top of the Mapbox
Platform with its highly modular architecture of Mapbox SDKs used
by hundreds of thousands of developers. Dash implements on top of
this platform an application layer that can be customized to each
car maker, their brands and specific model lines such as EV,
offroad, performance, and family vehicles. In addition, the Dash
application can be combined with full custom software build outs
based on Mapbox.
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About Mapbox
Mapbox powers location across all major industries. Millions of
hardware and software developers use Mapbox to add live location
awareness including maps, navigation, and search services to mobile
and web applications, logistics and dispatching and in-car
automotive navigation.
The Mapbox AI-powered data pipeline processes over 300 million
miles of anonymized and aggregated live road telemetry data daily
allowing Mapbox to continuously update the map everywhere in the
world.
Founded in 2010 in a garage in Washington, D.C., Mapbox now has
more than 600 million monthly active users touching its maps, a
global team of more than 500 employees, and is used by industry
leaders including General Motors, Instacart, Adobe, CNN, IBM,
Strava, The New York Times, Snapchat, Square, The Weather Channel,
Lonely Planet, Mastercard, The United Nations, Tableau, and
Microsoft Power BI. Learn more at www.mapbox.com.
About GM
General Motors (NYSE:GM) is a global company focused on
advancing an all-electric future that is inclusive and accessible
to all. At the heart of this strategy is the Ultium battery
platform, which powers everything from mass-market to
high-performance vehicles. General Motors, its subsidiaries and its
joint venture entities sell vehicles under the Chevrolet, Buick,
GMC, Cadillac, Baojun and Wuling brands. More information on the
company and its subsidiaries, including OnStar, a global leader in
vehicle safety and security services, can be found at
https://www.gm.com.
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Savannah Polzin Mapbox Communications 303-819-6182
savannah.polzin@mapbox.com Stephanie Obendorfer GM Communications
313-400-7540 stephanie.obendorfer@gm.com
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