Chrysler’s in car Wifi plans

How about listening to internet radio, or serving up Wifi for passengers to use on their laptop. Chrysler has plans to make the “car radio” into a wireless hub. Possible uses and misuses in the car are endless.

Chrysler believes that they can be the first auto manufacturer to provide in-car internet access—and they plan on achieving that feat by the end of this year. Frank Klegon, Chrysler’s product development chief noted: “we want to make the radio itself a WiFi port.” In order for the service to work, it would have to utilize a broadband connection from cellphone towers. (Gizmo Mews)

While, it a great idea, I’ve already had several near misses with the texting while driving crowd. I hope that there will also be some sensible improvement in the enforcement of the impaired driving rules every state has on the books ahead of this product’s introduction. The person who is driving shall not be staring a a screen or using a keyboard!