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Today (October 21.10.2015, XNUMX) is "Back to the Future" Day. Today Marty, the Doc and the DeLorean converted into a time machine arrive in the future. And I bet Marty and the Doc would be the first “trive.me” customers! Seriously.
trive.me | Driving in the future?
trive.me is a "spin-off", a company founded by the automotive supplier EDAG. Attentive mein-auto-blog readers will remember the "Bionicle concept car”From EDAG. And while you are at the "cocoon-concept”Has moved close to the logical core competence of a supplier, with“ trive.me ”you are taking two steps into the future. And that's exactly what Marty and Doc should really like. 
Example 1: parking solutions of the future
While the “flying DeLorean” could be parked anywhere, it is a little more difficult for us “normal people”. Where to park How to find your own parking space again? How to pay? There are everyday problems that you want to solve with trive.me. And the networking of the automobile is a very logical part of it. Regardless of whether one speaks of Car-2-Car or Car-2-x, the future of the automobile belongs to clever solutions. Belongs to cars that can network.
trive.me wants to offer solutions for this. You already have ideas. By Car-2-X communication cars can also be based in buildings. For example, when driving into a parking garage, the car could explain what kind of car it is. An SUV with more space? Or is a woman with a child driving (can be explained using trive.me's personalized account information) and is she looking for a suitable mother-child parking space? trive.me wants to be the bridge, between smartphone-intelligent in the jacket pocket, the smart-Automotive and - in this case - the parking garage.
Example 2: Always online
Marty and the doc are not to be envied. All the knowledge, all the anger, the problems - everything had to be solved without the internet. If Doc Emmet Brown were to convert a “DeLorean” into a time machine today, a) it would probably no longer be a DeLorean, but a Tesla and b) a HotSpot would be on board. You could probably even receive emails from the future. trive.me is aware that without networking, there is no future. “Smart cities” also need smart solutions, and the Internet hotspot is also important for Car-2-X communication. trive.me also offers new ideas for the Internet of the future. Carsharing cars could be hotspots in motion. The cars either drive, then they serve the primary purpose. Or they park and become inner-city hotspots. That would be a completely new idea, a completely new approach to supply our cities with hotspots across the board.
Example 3: Pay only what you use
In what year did Doc have to pay the road tax for his DeLorean? In the past, in the future - oh, probably he never asked himself that question. There were more important problems to be solved. Trive.me could also provide a completely new solution when purchasing a new car. The question, for example, whether I always pay for the seat heating or only when I use it? “Over the air” and “Software as a service” are the key words. Do you always need the parking assistant, or only when your daughter is driving the car as a novice driver? Why should you buy sensors if you don't need them? Why should you decide in advance? I may only need an electronic extension of the ESP system to stabilize trailers twice a year - but the surcharge for buying the car is several hundred euros. Buy or forego? If customers are leasing their cars more and more, then it would also be a solution to only pay for what is needed. Vacation trip with caravan, activate the “ESP extension” via trive.me and pay as a weekly flat rate. trive.me could do just that. An idea that probably not even the Hoverboard inventors of “Back to the Future” had.
The basis of all services: The “trive.me” account
The basis of all trive.me ideas and services is the personal “trive.me” account. And the inventors go further into the future than Marty and the Doc did in the three films. trive.me offers the individualization of the automobile on the basis of a profile function and the networking between smartphone, automobile and personal data. With trive.me you could give cars an individual profile. An individualization that goes far beyond what we know as profiles today. It's not just about seat adjustment, it's about using the right assistance systems. Implementing clever navigation solutions. To remove the barriers between the systems and to give the car the cleverness that you perceive it as a “partner”.
So I think if Marty, Emmett Brown and the DeLorean were real - they would have been the first trive.me customers ...
