Besides trying to figure out how to get today's youth interested in cars, carmakers are wracking their brains trying to figure out how to integrate things people don't want to go without -- social media, music, apps -- into cars in a safe way.
The trouble is that most of these systems are so inelegant and incomplete that there's absolutely no reason to use it instead of the one you're already holding in your hand. But that's dangerous and it's illegal in many states.
Renault's solution is this: R-Link. "R-link covers all the car's functions and data while offering access to a menu of useful and community applications already available on Smartphone." Or so says the release.
R-link has over 50 apps already and will be open to developers. R-link owners can download new content from the R-Link Appstore.
It looks nice, but it also looks busy and not much safer than just using a smartphone.
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