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Finally here: Amazon Echo for your car!

  • Connects to Alexa using your phone, is ready in seconds, and plays through your car speakers. Includes Echo Auto Dash Mount.
  • With eight microphones and far-field technology, Echo Auto can hear you over music, A/C, and road noise.
  • Use your voice to play music, check the news, open the garage door, find the nearest gas station, and more.
  • Play Audible audiobooks, stream podcasts, or listen to Amazon Music, Apple Music (coming soon), Spotify, Pandora, SiriusXM, or NPR.
  • Make calls, set reminders, add items to your shopping and to-do lists, or manage your calendar.
  • With over 50,000 skills and counting, Alexa is always getting smarter. Skills are like apps and let you do more with Alexa.
  • Set location-based routines—automated actions Alexa can start when you leave the office or get home.
  • Ask for directions and Alexa connects to supported apps like Google Maps. Apple Maps and Waze support will be available later this year.

No more fiddling with your phone or radio—just ask Alexa to play a song, genre, artist, or station from Amazon Music, Apple Music (coming soon), Spotify, Pandora, SiriusXM, and more. With Audible, listen to the world’s largest library of audiobooks and take the story with you anytime, anywhere. Plus, stream podcasts, listen to the news, or keep the whole car entertained with games like Jeopardy!, 20 Questions, and more.

Echo Auto lets you make the most of your time in the car. Add items to your to-do and shopping lists, set reminders, or manage your calendar while your eyes stay on the road. Ask Alexa to find nearby restaurants and reserve a table. When you’re leaving the office, use Drop In to connect with compatible Echo devices at home to check in with the family, or send them a quick Announcement that you’re picking up dinner. Alexa can also help you call your contacts using your phone.

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Muse Auto adds bluetooth and smartens up your car with Alexa

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A new product from MUSE auto, brings alexa to your car. Not only does it come with an Qualcomm signal processor, it has bluetooth built in, a microphone, aux output (to factory aux jacks with control, next/previous, mute, etc) and a multi color status LED. Why buy any other bluetooth device for your car WITHOUT alexa, when you can add this to your car and get everything. It is MADE for the car, so you get all these features, plug it into your aux jack of your car and get bluetooth streaming AND Alexa. Attach it with any in car magnetic mount or put it in your cupholder. Connect your smartphone to it and you are all set!

It can do everything within Alexa, stream music, checking reminders and schedules, controlling home products, answering and making calls and much more!

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Alexa for your car. Brings more than 30,000 Alexa voice skills to your car, played through the car stereo system using Bluetooth, USB and AUX! Just say “Alexa”. Plus, add wireless Bluetooth streaming and hands-free calling to your car through AUX. Please view product details to understand the LIMITATIONS before buying.

Hands-free entertainment: Ask Alexa to play music, news, podcasts, audiobooks, games, and more. Supports Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, TuneIn, Audible, SiriusXM, and more. Spotify® and Pandora® coming soon.

Productivity and safety on the road: Control your smart home, create to-dos, order food, do last minute shopping, check your calendar, and more, without taking your eyes off the road.

Requirements: Smartphone with data plan and free companion app always required for use. Can not be used concurrently with other music apps.
Compatibility: Supports Android 6.0 and higher, and iOS 10 and higher. OnePlus, Samsung S5, Note 4 and older Samsung phones are currently not supported.

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Adding Amazon ECHO , Music, Voice Assistant to your car

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Do you have an AUX jack in your car? or bluetooth already? Adding an Amazon ECHO to your car may be a good way to get a personal assistant in your car. Get access to all your music, get it to play by your voice commands, get reminders on appointments and all the other features an Amazon Echo can offer.

One side benefit is that the amazon Echo actually fits flush inside most car cupholders! Did you know that?

First, you need an amazon echo

we recommend you get the echo dot which is the smallest version.

Now, if you have bluetooth already, it will pair automatically by the time you have your seat belt is fastened and the car turned on. If you do not have bluetooth, and have an aux jack, you will need a 3.5 to 3.5 cable

Something like below:

You will also need an DC to AC adapter for your car, if you do not have an AC jack in the car already. We recommend a simple one that works through the cigarette lighter plug.

See below for inverters:

And then, thats it!

Some of the Amazon Echo Skills included

Echo Dot (2nd Generation) is a hands-free, voice-controlled device that uses Alexa to play music, control smart home devices, make calls, send and receive messages, provide information, read the news, set music alarms, read audiobooks from Audible, control Amazon Video on Fire TV, and more

Connects to speakers or headphones through Bluetooth or 3.5 mm stereo cable to play music from Amazon Music, Spotify, Pandora, iHeartRadio, and TuneIn. Play music simultaneously across Echo devices and speakers connected via cable with multi-room music.

Call or message almost anyone hands-free with your Echo device. Also, instantly connect to other Echo devices in your home using just your voice.

Controls lights, fans, TVs, switches, thermostats, garage doors, sprinklers, locks, and more with compatible connected devices from WeMo, Philips Hue, Sony, Samsung SmartThings, Nest, and others
Hears you from across the room with 7 far-field microphones for hands-free control, even in noisy environments or while playing music

Includes a built-in speaker so it can work on its own as a smart alarm clock in the bedroom, an assistant in the kitchen, or anywhere you might want a voice-controlled computer; Amazon Echo is not required to use Echo Dot

Always getting smarter and adding new features, plus thousands of skills like Uber, Domino’s, DISH, and more

Echo Dot provides hands-free voice control for Amazon Music—just ask for your favorite artist or song, or request a specific genre or mood. You can also search for music by lyrics, when a song or album was released, or let Alexa pick the music for you. Set a music alarm to wake up to your favorite song or playlist. Listen to any song with Amazon Music Unlimited.

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Radar Detectors – Laser Alerts

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Having a radar detector in your car reminds to drive safer, alerting you when you are over the speed limit and other potential dangerous situations. There are also red light camera alerts, accident alerts, and other safety features.

Take a look at the Escort 360 Radar below. It is discounted off the regular price of $649.00 on the manufacturer site.

The Escort 9500 has GPS built in. What makes this special is it can identify Red Light cameras by GPS location. Also, if there are false alarms in a particular spot each time you drive, it can mark the spot by GPS and ignore the false signal. This will bring you relief for you daily commute


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The cobra Rad450 is trained to ignore vehicle collision signals found in many newer cars. In many new cars, there are accident avoidance systems. Those systems transmit radar out to see if a car is in a blind spot, this will set off radars without the technology.

See the Cobra unit below

The VALENTINE ONE radar is unique. When it senses a radar, it will tell you which direction it is coming from. Front, sides or the rear. This way, you will know if you are coming up on a radar, if the radar is coming from the sides or if it is coming from behind your car.

CarMate makes an unit which has everything in ONE unit. It has a DVR recording (for your driving) and a radar detector built in!

Mute one only supported by CARMATE.The branded design is exclusively offered by CARMATE. CARMATE DVR provides seamless loop-cycle recording function which can let you keep the eye on what you care.
360 degrees detection angle.Temporary radar mute function, eliminate noisy alert.
When the gravity acceleration reaches the set value,G-Sensor allows DVR to automatically forced to save the video into the segment of video file that the machine can not be removed,the cycle will not be overwritten.
If This radar disturb you,you can turn off the radar voice with this mute key.The laser dectector can detect X,K,KA,L Band.The DVR will record these files one by one onto the SD card until it runs out of space. When space on the SD card runs out, the camera will start from the first files recorded, and delete the files from oldest to newest, one by one

Looking for a cordless solution? Something without cords, so you can bring it from car to car or to your rental? The Escort SOLO is your choice. Runs on batteries without degradation in performance!

Already have a radar detector? See a special mount to secure your radar onto your rear view mirror
SeeRear view mount

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Winter is coming. Heaters for cars and trucks.

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Winter is coming. If you are in a worktruck, in a car with a broken heater. There are 12 volt heaters that will make driving more comfortable for you. The more powerful units will require hooking up to the battery with power wire, less powerful units will work off the cigarette lighter plug in your car. 12 volt.

Below are some ceramic heaters which are probably the best and most powerful

The comfort zone heater is a good looking heater with a ton of positive reviews

Another option is to add a heated seat, so it can warm you from the bottom up. Here is a good car seat heater with positive reviews:

Link to all heaters

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