OYSTER BAY, NY - Telematics remains a North American dominated technology, a new research report says.

"Telematics efforts outside North America have faltered for several reasons," says Frank Viquez, director of automotive research at ABI Research. "In Europe, for example, a main factor is that consumers have much less of a propensity to pay for the advanced safety capabilities common to North American telematics services, such as automatic crash notification. Additionally, the main features that most European motorists demand -- navigation and traffic -- are commonly available as standalone services."

Telematics weds computers and telecommunications systems on a car.

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