On Fri, 06 Dec 2002 11:07:23 -0800 "Alex A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 18:07, Kevin Lahey wrote: > > Could anybody expand on this for me? I have to admit that I've > > had visions dancing in my head of in-car access for quite awhile, > > and I'd hate to think that it was unlikely to work... > > Kevin,just curious, what do you need this for when you drive? Well, I'm thinking less of what I could install in my Miata this evening, and more about what would be possible. I guess I'd like to do all the stuff that I might do with a hand-held device while wandering down a street: * Download or stream audio or video. * Pick up my e-mail. * Surf at a reasonable speed (what are traffic conditions like?). * Play games. * Send a quick video clip to my buddies -- "Can you believe that guy cut us off!?" [As a driver, I might wanna press a button to download some music, or check traffic. Most of the rest of these would be for passengers or for some sort of automated system.] GPRS could probably handle lots of this, although getting multimedia data would be pretty annoying. 3G sounds like it could do better, but even that seems to be able to pump less data as you start moving faster. I have to admit that I don't have a particular killer car app in mind, just a desire to have easy access no matter where I go. [Just to clarify, in my earlier discussion with Jim Thompson, I was thinking about APs located in the Interstate median, where the speed of closure would be an issue. Thanks for all of the responces pointing out that having APs located to the side of the highway would still work great!] Thanks! Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
