"Soon the time will come where your children are talking to there friends as your families drive in tandem next to each other down highway 77. When I say "talking", I mean wirelessly through console video game UI's such as Microsoft’s XBOX live and over IM wirelessly as they chat over secured connections on there laptop. The dawn has come to show that car electronics have evolved...tremendously! It is little time before these awesome technologies will allow our road warriors to download new music and movies right from there car and watch/listen to them instantly.

Not only will your car download video wirelessly, but you might be able to buy online music or video games without leaving the driver's (or passenger's) seat. "We are moving very quickly to this world where I can have everything I want to listen to right now," said Richard Lind of Delphi, a $4.6 billion Michigan company that sells navigation, video and satellite radio systems.


Before long, Lind predicted, consumers will be able to play a "video game downloaded at the last gas station" or enjoy the "ability for vehicles to communicate with each other as they go down the road."

Wireless networks that encourage file swapping in, say, rush hour traffic jams probably wouldn't be taken lightly by Hollywood's well-practiced lawyers. That's why electronics makers already are planning to avoid the Napsterization of the road by pledging to adopt digital rights management technology. Lind said that his company will ensure that digital content is transferred from home PCs to the car "with all the appropriate rights management in place."

[Via CNet]

The MethodShop Spin: I'm sure the folks at the RIAA are thrilled about all of this ;-)