The VoIP concept car: Scion Fuse
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Sooner or later, such a scenario would come out, the Internet would rebound on cars, as it already does with public parks or on highways streetlights. It would infiltrate every metallic skin and would consider every vehicle as a new node for its always expanding Web. We imagined such a scenario, but obviously it is already here.
Fuse, the latest Scion concept car, integrates a WiFi connection and thus could connect to the broadband Internet whenever it can. The front dash incorporates two 10.5-inch monitors ― interesting but one would be enough, except Scion wants the driver to watch the screen while on highways.
InternetNews reported that XM Satellite Radio, XM NavTraffic GPS systems and real-time traffic navigation would be some of the first applications to end up in the car. But there’s a lot more of applications that would fit into it.
Some examples: The car can be spotted on a Google map. The car itself could also be set a supernode for extending mesh networks. Or when Fuse drivers would meet each other, they would launch some peer-to-peer file-sharing. Oh, this last example might not be covered by insurances.
Check their website for some extra pictures.
Apr 18, 2006 | By Nuno
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I had wifi in Hot Springs, Arkansas in my Suburban via a mesh network. It was AWESOME to pull into StarBucks and be able to hang out and have my broadband follow with me where ever I went. Sorry T-Mobile no selling me on you over priced connection.
We were fortunate enough to have a county wide wifi based network there for a while. Apparently the provider didn’t end up making their business model work, a shame too, because their network rocked!
Local contractors and real estate agents I know had the mesh nodes in their cars and used their broadband connections everywhere in the county.
The service seemed to have worked quite well, I understand it to have been based upon equipment sold by Defacto Wireless Distribution LLC, www.defactowireless.com.
I have been bummed since returning to my EVDO based mobile broadband, as the connection speeds are no where near as fast as that wifi based mesh network was.