What is this Strange Gadget in My Car?

VanessaDannenberg asks: "Four months ago my fiancé and I bought a 1997 Thunderbird, which came with a few aftermarket mods. Of particular interest is this strange radio-related gadget that was attached to the windshield above the mirror. It has two 5-pin ports on it (as pictured) which accept a flat cable that runs under the car's headliner. I can't tell where that cable ends, but I figure it's a laptop interface (RS232?). Has anyone seen this thing before? What does it do?"

Comments

Of all the things that it could be,

[sweede]

it is definitly NOT A god damned laptop interface.

What kind of moron would install an interface into their car that you would plug the laptop in at the headliner.

Seriously how-t-f are you sopposed to use the laptop??? looking straight up at the screen as it sits flush with the roof? look at it upside down?

Well, i guess the same kind of moron would think its a laptop interface that submits a Ask Slashdot with a link to geocities and the same kind of moron that posts this as news.