ATX Teams With Peugeot to Offer In-Vehicle Alerts on Speed Camera Locations

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- Latest Connected Vehicle Service Provides Web Portal for Downloading Alerts to Vehicle

ATX Group, one of the leading providers of customized, connected vehicle services to the global automotive industry, announced today the launch of a Web-based service in France and the United Kingdom offering Peugeot drivers the capability to receive audio and visual in-vehicle alerts about the location of safety cameras monitoring vehicle speeds.

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The new, pay-per-use service, promoted as WIP Info Radars in France and Peugeot Connect Downloads in the U.K., is offered through a Web portal developed and hosted by ATX, enabling Peugeot drivers in France and the U.K. to continually download updates on safety monitoring camera sites throughout 14 countries in Europe (France, U.K., Italy, Spain, Andorra, Belgium, Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Czech Republic and Slovenia) to a USB flash drive or memory card that can then be plugged into the automobile’s navigation system. Drivers who purchase the information would then receive alerts through their in-vehicle display screen when approaching an area where a safety camera is located.

The ATX-hosted Web portal would be accessible through the personalized pages created by vehicle owners on their personalized Peugeot Web site. In addition to providing the vehicle owner with a log of what they’ve downloaded, the portal would also enable them to access the most recent file purchased, and when available, purchase additional updates to the speed camera data. Payment would be handled through credit cards.

“Enabling the connection with Web-based applications to get information to the vehicle will become one of the primary characteristics of connected vehicle services,” said Arnaud de Meulemeester, managing director of ATX in Europe.

ATX has a heritage of partnering with European-based automakers to introduce innovative, Web-based services, having helped pioneer the first in-vehicle access to online content in 2001 and the first download of online content to a vehicle in 2007.

ABOUT ATX:

With operations in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, and Dusseldorf, Germany, ATX (www.atxg.com) is one of the world’s leading providers of customized, connected vehicle services to global automobile manufacturers. ATX services, among the first to be launched in the consumer vehicle market back in 1996, are provided to vehicle owners through the brand names of its customers: Toyota, Lexus, BMW, PSA Peugeot Citroen, Mercedes-Benz, Maybach and Rolls-Royce Motor Cars.

Services by ATX provide enhanced safety, security and driving convenience to vehicle owners, and include location-specific emergency and roadside assistance, automatic collision notification, stolen vehicle recovery, remote diagnostics, and real-time traffic and navigation assistance. ATX also customizes services to help automobile manufacturers and their affiliated dealerships use telematics data and multiple customer contact channels to reduce costs, enhance vehicle servicing, and more closely manage customer relationships and contacts with the vehicle through its lifetime. ATX is a division of Cross Country Automotive Services (www.crosscountry-auto.com), a leading provider of location-based automotive services.

Source: ATX Group

Europe, Arnaud de Meulemeester, Managing Director, +49-21153681311, ameulemeester at atxeu.com, or North America, Gary Wallace, Vice President, Corporate Relations, 1-800-511-5891, or +1-972-753-6230, gwallace at atxg.com, both of ATX Group