A cool concept: a Wi-Fi vehicle. Detriot Free Press reporter got a demonstration of how to use Wi-Fi to transfer music and other content to the cars.
“At a table inside Starbucks, Ford executives set up a laptop that had a bunch of MP3 tracks on its hard drive. Inside the [2004 Lincoln Aviator SUV], a prototype Wi-Fi entertainment system from Delphi was built into the dashboard. It had all the regular buttons for AM and FM radio, a CD player and even a Sirius satellite radio receiver. But there was one more: a synchronization button…We pushed it, and in about 20 seconds, some two dozen MP3 files from the laptop inside Starbucks were downloaded to the Delphi radio and stored on a built-in flash memory drive.”
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