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Satellite TV From a Moving Car
An anonymous reader sent us an article about an in-car digital satellite television system. that can stay trained on the satellite even while moving. Of course, Most amusing is all the comments about how TV in cars is for passengers, because as we know, the drivers are too busy talking on their cell phones.
It's bad enough American parents can't raise children without using the TV as a babysitter now they ensure the successful brainwashing during road trips. (Your right I'm not a parent and I think there should be a number of tests involved like can you afford to send them to university? Will you have the time required to teach and train them a good moral fabric? Will you read to them every night?..yes I think testing should be involved prior to having children, but than again where would the lower classes come from overseas?) ...scratch that already are. SUV's are already the most dangerous thing on the road, they have already killed more Americans and Canadians than any gun, that's right point it at your head and "Feel good" in your new "I'm bigger than You" vehicle. You can now kill numerous pedestrians, animals, family members and other such things while driveing drunk and walk away, that is if it doesent flip first.
linkey
I don't watch TV (of any kind) and neither should you, if your children cannot read then fine install a DVD and at least CONTROL the content that makes it into those precious impressionable cerebellums. Instead of having them surf the satellite waves for more capitalist indoctrination via network syndication and marketing plans?
Then again, it's a car, what ever happened to 100 bottles of beer? The horse game? and other fun road trip pastimes that foster communication and no wait this is the information age, why not just get an uplink and jack-in?
Next up, the en-suv Microwave with Built in convection oven for the "I'm going to my friends party and want to roast the whole pig on the way", followed by "Tired of having to visit the plastic surgeon between casting interviews"..."Now you to can have a facelift while you drive with the "INSTA-Mexican-Doctor in the glove compartment", uses GPS to navigate the features of your face, and will also peel any fruit for you while you drive....I can see it now, soon the highways will be yet another even grosser form of mass consumption than the home...wait no