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What is this Strange Gadget in My Car?

Posted by Cliff on from the automotive-mystery dept.

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?"

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  1. Of all the things that it could be, by sweede · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    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.

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  2. Re:i claim this fp for GNAA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Not a dick, a vibrator! But marks for closeness and FP!

    This "strange gadget" interfaces with certain vibrator models.

    The faster a woman drives, the sharper she turns around corners, the faster she brakes... the more pleasure it gives (faster, more bendy movement).

    That's why women drivers are so pathetic, and crash frequently. (They crash as they get the big O) Here in Australia they are banned in all 6 states and the territories.

    --BladeMelbourne