NEW YORK—In-car payments, where drivers can pay for purchases while sitting inside their vehicle, are coming soon.
As CUToday.info has reported, card networks have been partnering with carmakers to equip vehicles with mobile payment technology. Now Bankrate.com reports the tech is headed drivers’ way this year.
Drivers will be able to pay for parking spaces and gasoline without even getting out of their cars. Amazon and Google are also bringing their voice assistants to cars.
The trend toward in-car payment systems started last year and has accelerated in 2017, Bankrate.com said. As CUToday.info reported, last October, Mastercard announced a partnership with General Motors and IBM to bring mobile payments to OnStar systems in GM vehicle dashboards.
“Visa and Honda in January demonstrated a new in-vehicle payments system they’ve been working on in collaboration with smart parking meter and gas pump manufacturers. Honda drivers will be alerted when they pull up to a beacon-equipped smart meter or fuel pump, and they can pay just by touching a button on the dash. Ford Motor Co. will soon add Amazon's Alexa voice assistant to its vehicles,” stated Bankrate.com.