It's not exactly Knight Rider, but it may be even cooler.
Fancy controlling your Tesla electric car with your wristwatch? There's (about to be) an app for that.
A developer has come up with an app for the upcoming Apple Watch to
allow the user to remotely control the high-tech Tesla electric car,
tech site Mashable reported.
Ukraine-based
developer Eleks' app potentially lets a user control some basic
functions of a Tesla Model S using the watch's touchscreen, the report said.
Eleks' Markiyan Matsekh told Mashable they used an unofficial mocked-up Tesla back-end API, a reverse-engineered JSON API of the real Tesla API.
"We skipped the authentication module and just used the API," Matsekh said.
Despite initial technical limitations, the app can access some of the car's functions such as locking and unlocking, headlights and mileage and battery life.
On the other hand, Mashable said this could disrupt systems like Apple's CarPlay before it can reach most cars. — Joel Locsin/TJD, GMA News
"We skipped the authentication module and just used the API," Matsekh said.
Despite initial technical limitations, the app can access some of the car's functions such as locking and unlocking, headlights and mileage and battery life.
On the other hand, Mashable said this could disrupt systems like Apple's CarPlay before it can reach most cars. — Joel Locsin/TJD, GMA News
source: gmanetwork.com
