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Ultimate Automotive Computer Installation

Posted by pudge on from the i-have-seen-the-future-and-it-is-good dept.

ErnstKompressor writes "I came across a story detailing an awesome car mod out of the Czech Republic. The author undertook what must be the most impressive exercise in computer integration I have ever seen, installing an extensive Mac system with custom Cocoa software controlling nearly every aspect of a 1993 Tatra 613. On-board systems monitoring, navigation, entertainment, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, plus much more, are all rolled into a tight, extensible, package. Check it out."

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  1. A bientot, M. Server! by American+AC+in+Paris · · Score: 5, Funny
    [mycar:~] bob% ignition
    Connecting to ignition...Connection refused: too many users. Please try again later.
    [mycar:~] bob% ignition
    Connecting to ignition...Connection refused: too many users. Please try again later.
    [mycar:~] bob% ignition
    Connecting to ignition...Connection refused: too many users. Please try again later.

    Damn you, Slashdot...

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  2. Great for Traffic Jams by zgwortz962 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now *that* has got to be a great car to have in traffic jams. With just one click, Expose will move all the other cars out of your way...

  3. Requisite commentary... by griffjon · · Score: 5, Funny

    With wi-fi, does that mean you can see a beowulf cluster of these on any sufficiently packed freeway?

    I'd post something of content, but the site is already severely /.ed...

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    Returned Peace Corps IT Volunteer
  4. Dude, where's my... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...web server?

  5. It's not Slashdotted by MattGWU · · Score: 5, Funny

    He just drove into a tunnel.

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  6. Re:Fastest Mac on four wheels? by kfg · · Score: 5, Funny

    Airspace; it's all plastic.

    Well, that and a couple pounds of graphite and a few scraps of balsawood, but then the same is true of every F1 car these days.

    American cars make great boat anchors, if even the sea will take them.

    Well, we haven't done so well lately. I've actually owned two Fords, but then they were both German. I'd take a Cord L-29 in a heartbeat though if someone would be so kind as to bestow one upon me.

    As for leaking oil I've always found that the British are the masters of getting cars to do that. As well as leaking tops.

    For a long time I couldn't understand why my cars from sunny Italy all had tops that never leaked a drop that you could operate with one hand at a stoplight and had heaters that could give you heatstroke in the middle of a Canadian winter; but all my British cars had tops that took three men an hour to erect that then leaked like sieves and heat that only worked in July.

    And then I had a revelation. The Italians are used to being warm and dry and take that state seriously, whereas being warm and dry is simply a concept that has never even occured to the British.

    KFG