Peugeot to offer in-car Wi-Fi in 2010 Peugeot is to turn its cars into mobile Wi-Fi hotspots. Early next year, the French carmaker will offer an optional in-car wireless router that uses a HSDPA 3G modem as a backhaul. Dubbed WiFi On Board, the box will allow the user to connect using whichever carrier he or she prefers. At this stage, it's not clear to what …
Don't we have enough distractions to contened with whilst driving, chav boy/girl racers, spending all day messing with thier makeup/ICE/shooter, idiots taking a wrong turn cos thier sat-nav told them to turn right on a motorway, oap's croaking or causing pileup's cos they forgot which way to drive down the motorway.
(not mention dodgy East European lorry drivers who are as pissed as pickled newts driving 50 tonnes of HGV on the wrong side of the road).
My cars will be upgraded this year with the latest mobile jamming tech including the 5GHz range as well. (c/o that nice PRC company that makes them at a very nice price with superquick delivery via fleabay).
along with (swiss made) RF shielding foil on all the windows...
Mines the one with the prickly roof covered in antenna' in a roving deadzone coming down a motorway near you...
and people wonder why we are all dying of various cancers in the west.
newer shinyer (ooh it flashes blue, purdy lights...) Technology is not the answer.
silver/bronze/gold foil might be though....
a wireless router inside the car, that connects wirelessly with a 3g network, it kind of makes sense if you spend a massive amount of time ferrying you entire family all over the country, and the signal could be guaranteed. Otherwise it seems a bit of a waste. Otherwise why pay the subscription?
I can sort of see the use, having any wi-fi device be able to tie into the 3g network, but having to tie it to a car as well seems a bit of a waste, on the other hand a portable 3g wireless router, that could connect to any wi-fi device rather than needing a usb connection, would be worth it. It could even have a cigarette lighter adapter so it would work in any car.
in something like a London Cab or something where businessmen- people who need to be connected- can be connected.
But in a little 106 equivalent taking the kids to school? Yeah, fantastic. Lets let mum get pissed off endless rickrolls, or teenage kid #47 racking up a bill on the WiFi watching Porn from his room with a big aerial to get round whatever controls his parents put on the "proper" Internet connection.
This will get around all those stupidly crafted cellphone bans.
Instead of being sensible and legislating against getting distracted, far too many countries have legislated specifically against using cell phones while driving so that truckers and cabbies etc can still communicate while driving.
Two-way radio. OK.Tetra radio (looks about the same as a cell phone) is not a cell phone and so is OK.
Now you can use a VoIP handset and the plods can get stuffed.
Road warriors are already online with existing mobile connections. This is simply adding additional distractions to the ever increasing crap people will have in their cars.
CARS ARE FOR DRIVING - if you want to twitter some drivel, pull into a service station or internet cafe. Or better still, grow up and GET A LIFE !
And the excuse " what about the passengers". Apart from the fact there are already better passenger solutions, screw them - they can sit and have a conversation with the driver and other passengers. Perhaps if people talked to each other instead of sending them emails the world wouldn't be in the shit it's in now!
What next - wifi on bicycles so that the lycra clad can wikikick James Martin even quicker ?
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...I could just use my Windows Mobile phone which can behave as a 3G->WIFI bridge. Simplez.
Anyway, unless they're installing an aerial somewhere outside the car, I can't see it being that useful, especially given how patchy the 3G network is, especially when you go beyond the boundaries of the urban grey.
Don't worry. All the objectionable / dangerous actions that this could be put to would rely on one very important thing, for it to actually work.
This is Peugeot, so we're talking French auto electrics here. Unless Satan's been seen out shopping for a cashmere scarf and fluffy slippers recently, there's nothing to worry about.
had a pc in my car for a months now essentially for music purposes
It already tethered to my phone over bluetooth for internet access which was fine when it was just that,
...last month i reversed the wifi adapter's role to be an adhoc network for "inflight entertainment" as it were for people in the car, bluetooth is too slow, why be limited to 40kbps when you can get alot more with a cable from phone to pc (seeing as 3g is typically alot faster).
My windows mobile has a WiFi router and internet sharing, so I'll just switch that on instead for the missus and the little'un.
I'm surprised government hasn't stepped in and banned these sorts of ideas seeing as we dying quite quickly in large numbers on the road due to numpties who are distracted by something as simple as a text message.
http://www.gwent.police.uk/leadnews.php?a=2172
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