Do You Really Want Your Car To Be A Rolling WiFi Hotspot?

Courtesy Techdirt  Wed, 06/25/2008 - 23:45

Apparently Chrysler is looking to turn your car into a rolling WiFi hotspot , allowing you to connect to the internet both for the sake of accessing information, but also for providing it (such as traffic info).

Of course, automakers have talked about internet access in cars before, but it hasn't gone very far -- so unless you brought your own EVDO card, you weren't doing much.

But is there really a strong demand for such things? As some...

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