Telefonica Germany and BMW will be showing how the new LTE mobile communication technology works in cars. It enables high-speed internet, including video streaming and music, even while driving on the road. The specialists at BMW Group Research and Technology have been conducting live tests to evaluate LTE in vehicles. They have also been developing applications such as automatic traffic sign recognition via a server connection. These activities are made possible in the current research prototype through LTE by Telefonica Germany. For one year already, the BMW Research and Innovation Centre (FIZ) has been provided with the broadband technology for these tests. The BMW Group is testing LTE in the city of Munich and surrounding rural areas, studying parameters such as transmission characteristics, latency times and data speeds in real time. Initial results show top download values of up to 70 megabits per second as well as average data rates of 23 megabits per second within the city.
