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A quick example, think about driving down the autobahn.Your intelligent car develops an engine problem. But instead of flashing you a warning light, it sends a message directly to the manufacturer over a wireless connection to the Net. The manufacturer systems diagnose the problem, and they transmit a fix back to the electronic complex in your car. In fact, that electronic fix is transmitted to all models of that car anywhere in the world without having to notify the owners. And that is good for the driver, so also better for the car maker. Instant performance information captured and sent immediately into product development and manufacturing, continuous feedback loop, continuous improvement, resulting in better cars, good for the consumer and competitive advantage for the businesses to get there first. How can any company with tens of millions of vending machines scattered all around the world know at any point what is selling, what is not selling, how much of an item is left, or when to send a rood driver to empty the coin box. A little chip in each machine could check and report on all of those items with ease, and even better. Why could not that machine include a thermal stack that told it, it is freezing today, drop the price by 10 pfennigs.
舉個例子吧。想象一下你正在駕駛一輛新型汽車。當這輛智能汽車發生了一起引擎故障時，它不是向你閃爍警示燈，而是通過無線 Internet 連接直接向制造商發送信息。制造商的系統診斷出問題，然后向汽車的電子系統發回修理信息。實際上這個電子修理信息將在不通告其擁有者的情況下發向世界上所有這種型號的汽車。這對駕駛人員和制造商都是有好處的。性能信息隨時都可以得到，并被立即發送給產品開發商和制造商，這樣經過不斷的反饋，不斷的改進，就可以制造出更好的汽車，從而有益于消費者，使企業擁有領先的競爭優勢。一家擁有遍布全世界上千萬自動售貨機的公司如何能夠知道各個售貨機中什么賣掉了，什么沒賣掉，還剩多少，或者什么時候該派人去把售貨機里的錢取出來。每臺機器中安裝一個很小的芯片就可以很方便地檢查并報告所有這些信息，甚至可能做得更好。為什么不能在這些機器里裝一個溫度計呢？溫度計會告訴售貨機說，"今天很冷，價格下調 10 分尼。
