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</p><p>&nbsp; After conquering the e-commerce sector, Alibaba is all geared up to get into the automobile industry with the announcement of a smart car at an event held in Hongzhou, China. The car, labelled as RX5, was under development and testing for over a year now. The e-commerce giant partnered with the country’s largest automaker, SAIC Motor Corporation, to make the 'Internet Car'. The company said YunOS for cars is Alibaba Group's smart operating system specially brought together for the automotive industry.</p><p>&nbsp; Jack Ma, Executive Chairman, Alibaba Group, said, "Humans have made machines more intelligent in the past few decades. What we hope to achieve in the coming decades is to inject machines with human wisdom. Just as software programs have made the phone smarter today, YunOS will make cars an even more indispensable part of human life in the future society. Today marks the dawn of that new era. We feel proud and privileged to be playing a part in driving that change." The technology laden car showcases futuristic fuel technology, more powerful accelerator, lower oil consumption, and a shorter braking distance. Talking about it more, the OS'Car RX5 also gets a long list of inventive features such as intelligent map, location tracking without WiFi or GPS, and automatic change in map zoom size based on the car speed. With audio being the primary principal mode for controlling the system, the car can also take direct commands via smart voice control. At the event, Dr. Wang Jian, chairman of Alibaba’s Technology Steering Committee, also said, "What we are creating is not 'internet in the car', but a 'car on the internet'. This is a significant milestone in the automobile industry. Smart operating systems become the second engine of cars, while data is the new fuel."</p><p>&nbsp; The car, first to get an "Internet ID", recognizes the driver through connected smartphones or smartwatches and also facilitates personalized services such as greetings, preferred music, and destinations. It also comes with up to four detachable action cameras that allows users to not only record videos, but also take 360-degree in-car selfies which can be shared instantly via the connected smartphone. Available in China, the OS'Car RX5 is priced between CNY 99,800 - CNY 186,800 (Rs 10,07,240 – Rs 18,85,295). Other companies, like Google, also have made significant progress in the sector and have been testing them for long now, but none of them have released a commercial product. The RX5 would be the first mass-produced smart vehicle, Alibaba announced.</p><p>&nbsp; Alibaba, which started as an e-commerce website, has got into online-payment (Alipay), messaging (Aliwangwang), movies (Alibaba Pictures), cloud computing (Alibaba Cloud Computing), online classifieds (Taobao) and location based solution (AutoNavi). Furthermore, Alibaba is also a major shareholder in Didi Chuxing, the Chinese competitor of Uber.</p><p></p>