IN-VEHICLE APPARATUS

摘要

An in- vehicle system (301), adapted to store information concerning vehicle usage, to store vehicle options for a driver of the vehicle, to transmit data to a remote location (321) and to receive data from the remote location (321) for provision to the driver of the vehicle. The system also being adapted to store permissions associated with an authorised driver of the vehicle, such permissions relating to the security of information that is transmitted from the vehicle by the system or received in the vehicle by the system. The system recognises a person as an authorised driver of a vehicle by interfacing with a mobile phone or other communications device of that person. If the vehicle is driven by a person who is not recognised as an authorised driver of the vehicle, the system transmits data to the remote location warning of a suspected unauthorised driver of the vehicle, and prevents access by the suspected unauthorised driver to secure information stored by the system or received from the remote location.