Apple Watch App Lets You Control Your Tesla Car

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Apple Watch App Lets You Control Your Tesla Car

 Automotive
Software development company Eleks has created an app that will connect the upcoming Apple Watch and Tesla cars, allowing Model S owners to control their vehicles remotely from their wrists.





With almost all big tech companies working on wearable technology, it's only a matter of time before it becomes an integral part of our lives. Smartwatches, probably the most popular type of wearable device nowadays, are touted as the next big thing in personal technology, just like the smartphone was more than a decade ago.

"The app perfectly lines up with the concept of smart watches, lets the user access critical information about the car and allows managing it quickly without wasting time on taking out and unlocking the phone."


That's why, like smartphones, smartwatches are bound to become integrated with another inseparable part of people's lives – cars. The process of integrating smartwatches into cars' dashboards has already started, with the likes of BMW, Mercedes, and Hyundai, among others, integrating various smartwatch functions into their infotainment systems.

The latest project regarding integration between smartwatches and cars joins two of the biggest members of today's tech elite together – Tesla Motors and Apple. The software development company Eleks has created an app that will connect the upcoming Apple Watch and Tesla cars, allowing Model S owners to control their vehicles remotely from their wrists.

The Apple Watch will be released in April, with a heavy price tag of $349, and it could be of great use to those who already own a Tesla car or intend to buy one in the future. The Tesla app for Apple Watch has several features that allow car owners to control some of their car's basic functions, such as the headlights, the air condition system, and the doors. So, by downloading the Tesla app, Model S owners will be able to lock and unlock their cars' doors, turn the headlights on and off, honk the horn, and adjust the temperature inside the car, by swiping your fingers across the touchscreen on your smartwatch.

Tesla App

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In addition to giving car owners remote access to various vehicle systems, the Tesla app provides essential information about the car's overall condition. For instance, there is a feature that displays information on the car's battery, showing how many miles of predicted range are left in it, and another feature tells you the exact location of the car when you are away.

Although the app is still only a concept, it is safe to say that it will be commercially available by the time the Apple Watch hits stores, and when it does, it will probably offer many more features, which might include remote engine start and stop, or roadside assistance calls, and they might even be voice activated.

Apple Watch for Tesla Car

Eleks Labs, the Ukraine-based developer, touted the app's convenience and practicality in a blog post. “The app perfectly lines up with the concept of smart watches, lets the user access critical information about the car and allows managing it quickly without wasting time on taking out and unlocking the phone,” said the company on its website.

It will surely be of great help to Model S owners, and it basically brings together two of the most popular brands, Apple and Tesla, which have more or less the same target audience – the rich and tech-savvy consumers that like having expensive and exclusive products that only a selected group of people can afford to buy.




By Jordan PerchEmbed

Author Bio - Jordan Perch is an automotive fanatic and “driving app” specialist. He is a writer for DMV.com, which is a collaborative community designed to help ease the stress and annoyance of “dealing with the DMV”


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