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	The field of in-vehicle infotainment systems covers a wide variety of digital applications, including internal connectivity, entertainment, external communications, navigation services, and radio. This book contains 87 papers covering the past eight years (2000-2007) of engineering developments related to infotainment systems.
	
	Subjects covered include:
- Enabling technologies
 - Software
 - Communications
 - Voice recognition
 - Speech synthesis
 - Displays
 - Radio systems
 - Driver assistance systems
 - Navigation
 - Lane departure warning
 - Parallel parking
 - Driver/Vehicle interfaces
 
	
	The book also includes editor Ronald K. Jurgen's introduction ("Infotainment Systems on Fast Forward") and a concluding section on "future trends" which features papers on future security needs, virtualization architectures, operating system requirements, network architectures, and data-reduction protocols.