iLane and You iLane is an in-car, voice-interactive productivity and entertainment platform that lets you stay in touch while you drive.
You're used to having the world at your finger-tips. At the click of a button, you can see what's waiting for you in your inbox. With the tap of a touch-screen - you've got last night's football scores.
But, all that information is out of reach from behind the wheel of your car. That important email from your boss or text message from your family has to wait for you to get home or to work the next day. Most of us resist grabbing our smartphone when we see that red blinking light. But far too many take their eyes of the road and hands off the wheel to sneak a quick peek at email or text messages.
Now you can stay on top of what matters while keeping your hands on the wheel and eyes on the road with iLane - the in-car services and apps platform.
iLane allows drivers to safely stay connected to email, text messages, calendar appointments, breaking news stories, entertainment gossip or the score of last nights hockey game. Whether you have a long daily commute, spending most of your day on the road making sales calls or you simply want to stay in touch while driving - iLane keeps you connected by the power of your voice.
Get the In-Car Device. Multi-user in-car device MSRP $149.
Pair up to 6 iLane users per in-car device.
Like your cable box at home, the iLane in-car device is the hub that connects
you to the apps and services while you're driving. The iLane VIAS OS is the unique
operating system that powers iLane and securely connects to your smartphone
as soon as you enter your car.
Second, Activate Your iLane Account
Call iLane Activations at 1.866.925.8021
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The Always Connected plan includes the core iLane apps and services.
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iLane® is a hands-free, in-vehicle, voice-activated, secure system for email and phone access, meant to allow drivers to keep their eyes on the lane. Designed as a safety device, the iLane® allows users to do the things they do anyway — text, talk on the phone and email while in control of a motor vehicle — but do it more safely. It is made by Intelligent Mechatronic Systems® (IMS), which also makes Prompt® to enable drivers to have a hands-free way to contact a dispatch center, and DriveSync®, a platform for fleet monitoring and vehicle tracking.
The IMS home office is in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Canada was the first country in which it was released in 2008 with software compatible with the BlackBerry® 8000+ series smartphones of Waterloo neighbor, Research in Motion® (RIM). The market has been expanded to the United States, with Australia next in line. Plans for other languages and phones are in progress.
iLane® is a Bluetooth® receiver and voice-recognition device that requires a Bluetooth® headset or stereo receiver for operation and plugs into a car’s cigarette lighter with a 12V adapter. It allows a user to interact with his or her smartphone’s downloaded email messages, as well as place calls and compose emails. More specifically, it reads email messages and incoming email, SMS, and PIN messages — the latter refers to Blackberry® device-to-device messages. Then it allows the user to delete, forward, or mark them as unread, reply with either a pre-set template, a Voice Note®, or an mp3, or alternatively, to place a call to the sender if the phone number is in the address book. In addition, browsing of email can be restricted to unread messages.
iLane® can also place phone calls to contacts identified by name or number. Additionally, it can check the user’s calendar and, making use of material supplied by the Associated Press (AP), weather forecasts for a designated city and news headlines in the categories business, general, sports, technology, and entertainment, along with some special features on certain days of the week.
Some experts have attributed a portion of iLane’s popularity in the United States to the coincidence of its release with a growing number of distracted driving bans taking effect in 2009 and 2010. With laws specifying the prohibition of handheld cell phones and text messaging, the use of the iLane® can in some cases make phone and text messages legal. By May 2010, very few states had no law at all dealing with distracted driving.