Cars-How Long in the Anonymous Box?

woolfish asks: "So the U.S. is the nation of 4-wheeled cubicles, bitching and moaning about $2/gal gas when Europe's doing >$2/liter. But with all talks of high-tech aside, a car still has only 3 boolean data channels (R/L blinkers, horn), 4 if you count the finger. Is someone gonna get off their ass and figure out a way to work inter-car communication, or are we going to stay pissed off and silent during rush hour for the rest of our lives? What do you folks think, are there any solutions in the works, do you have any good ones, or is silence really golden here?" Sounds cool, and there are several areas where such a thing might be really useful. But are you -really- sure you want to listen to the flurry of foul epithets that must certainly issue out of drivers mouths daily during the long morning and evening commutes?

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OT: PA town enforces talking while driving ban

[Cy Guy]

NEW BRITAIN, PA - Driver fined $75 for driving while on phone:

Dan Young says he never thought calling his mother from the road to tell her he was on his way home would make him an outlaw.

In Hilltown Township, home of the state's first local ban on handheld phone use while driving, it did. And yesterday a judge told Young, 42, that even though he was not aware of the law - Young lives in Fleetwood, Berks County - he was still guilty of violating it and will have to pay a $75 fine.