Patent ID: 8344870

Claim:
A vehicle comprising: a dashboard comprising one or more touchscreen displays; a wireless network interface; a plurality of icons for presentation by one or more of the touchscreen displays to a user in the vehicle, each of one or more of the icons being configurable by the user through tactile interaction with the icon via one or more of the touchscreen displays, each of the icons when presented to the user making accessible to the user through one or more of the touchscreen displays a particular functionality, the particular functionality comprising one or more of: conveying to the user information associated with one or more aspects of operation of the vehicle; conveying to the user information associated with a functional status of each of one or more systems of the vehicle; providing to the user access to one or more applications or services configured to utilize the wireless network interface; enabling the user to interact with one or more applications or services through tactile interaction with one or more of the plurality of icons via one or more of the touchscreen displays; or providing the user access to, and conveying to the user, information from one or more applications or services; and software associated with the icons that is operable to present the icons by the touchscreen displays to the user and to implement their functionality.