In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Jerry McBride
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on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 20:00:59 -0400
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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> __/ [ ed ] on Sunday 11 March 2007 18:13 \__
>>
>>> On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 03:07:17 +0000
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yesterday I saw a further enhancement to this. The video was
>>>> mentioned last week, but ever since it received exposure people have
>>>> experimented with the idea, AFAICT. There's also a Debian Linux for
>>>> embedded devices which boots in under 2 seconds. But who needs to
>>>> boot anyway? Unless of course no service is run, in which case energy
>>>> can be saved...
>>>
>>> Things like in car mp3 are good like this.
>>
>> The whole idea of in-car PCs (or Wi-fi in the case of Microsoft-Ford) is
>> wasteful. Why integrate and tie an appliance to just one place when the
>> same appliance is portable and affordable? PDAs come to mind.
>>
>
> The COOL FACTOR isn't the same with PDA'a or IPOD's...
>
I dunno; some cars are already offering iPod plugins as
an option. It would not be too much of a stretch to put
something in the car that requires a compute-engine key;
this key would look much like a PDA/mobile (or might even
*be* a standardized PDA/mobile, which could double as a
multipurpose key). The car would refuse to start without
the PDA/mobile, and while running the PDA/mobile would
show critical information not already covered by the
display of such things as speed, tach, fuel level, etc.
High-end autos might even replace the standard dials
with a cheap, rugged LCD display of some sort, powered by
the car's electricity but driven by the PDA/mobile as an
external video screen.
Additional advantages include such things as hands-free
speaking (dialing, if the PDA/mobile is on the steering
wheel, might still require someone to lift one finger --
keeping the other hand on the steering wheel -- and push
on-screen buttons or some such), as the unit could
plug into the car's amplifier.
The drawbacks are obvious if the PDA/mobile, or software
thereon, is damaged or lost.
http://www.dashpc.com/
shows a system that is an indicator system, not a control
system, as far as the car's electronics are concerned,
but I for one don't see why one couldn't tweak it, if
it's useful (this is already a tweak to begin with, and
it's pretty cool-looking; the main problem is that the
actual computer unit resides in the trunk).
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