FCA and Google reported on Monday that the organizations would uncover the most recent iteration of FCA's Android-based infotainment framework named Uconnect at the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Jan 5-8.

Fiat Chrysler and Google as of now have a partnership to promote the advancement of self-driving cars. What's more, now the auto and tech goliaths are uniting to upgrade the mediocre in-car infotainment frameworks. An Android in-car infotainment framework was seen, at the time, as only an idea. Presently it creates the impression that already one automaker is intrigued reports, Fortune.

Presently, numerous new cars include in-dash head units that are good with Android Auto and Apple's Car Play, frameworks that basically give restricted access to limited applications, for example, contacts and maps - living on the driver or traveler's cell phone reports, USAToday.

Be that as it may, FCA's new Uconnect idea, which is fueled by the most recent variant of Android, Nougat 7.0, intends to expand the cell phone's usefulness inside the car, offering access to a more extensive and more adaptable suite of applications.

FCA and Google are eight months into a profound joint effort on self-driving auto innovation, with the automaker giving Google's recently renamed autonomous car company - Waymo - with 100 Chrysler Pacificas along with the Mountain View, Calif-based organization's self-driving sensors.

Google is spinning out the project with a mission in mind which is fueled by the market and legal conditions as well:

Buyers progressively hope to port their cell phone lives over to their vehicles with the negligible whine. Tesla has become well known by offering one of the biggest, vertically positioned screens accessible in a car today. The greater part of the car's capacities is controlled from the 17-inch screen. FCA's new Uconnect will be showcased on an 8.4-inch screen inside a Chrysler 300.

The other reason behind automakers to additionally refine hands-free smartphone-based infotainment frameworks is 'legal'.

In spite of the fact that holding your smartphone and talking while driving is as of now banned in 14 states and content informing is banned in 46 states, the standards just got stricter for California drivers.

Starting Jan. 1, inhabitants of the Golden State are restricted from holding and working their telephones for any reason unless it is mounted to a dashboard, and, after its all said and done just a single touch swipes are allowed.

Google director of Android engineering Patrick Brady added that the companies are "committed to building Android as a turn-key automotive platform that integrates deeply with the vehicle in a safe and seamless way."

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