In the blaze of news that was the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Toyota and Ford launched a new industry consortium that aims to mitigate the incursions Apple and Google are planning into the automotive industry. The current key battleground is the in-vehicle infotainment system (IVI), and the technology being pushed as the answer to this threat is SmartDeviceLink (SDL). The automakers are painfully aware that tech giants want to encroach on their turf. With Apple and Google holding the keys to the consumer kingdom, thanks to their iron-fisted control over the smartphone ecosystem, a technology like SDL could allow the automakers to keep them at bay. The crux of the problem is that consumers currently interface with the IoT via…