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Coming Soon, Roadcasting
ByteWoopy writes "from Wired.com 'Stuck in traffic and sick of Howard Stern, you may soon be able to tune in to the music collection of the person in the car in front of you. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are developing an ad hoc networking system for cars that would allow any driver to broadcast music to any other vehicle within a 30-mile radius. Developed by a group of current and former master's students at the Human Computer Interaction Institute, the Roadcasting project would allow drivers to stream their MP3 music collections by Wi-Fi or similar technology to any other vehicle within range that is equipped with compatible hardware and software.
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...if the hot chick in the Benz starts playing "Naughty Girl" when I tune in, then I should take it as an invitation to follow her home?
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This is what you would call a Vehicle-Area Network, or VAN for short.
This is kind of like social networking, only without all the hassle of being social.
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hey, welcome to traffic jams from station 620-LPT, the black thunderbird! It's 5:30 PM and how's your coolant level? We've got the Smiths coming up, but first, the driver of the Red Explorer, your left turn signal has been on for the past two miles, are you turning any day now? [cue music]
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I'm just picturing transmissions such as:
"And this next song goes out to the owner of the white Ford Mustang, license plate A3G-D92, who just cut me off in traffic.
(song "I Hope You Die" kicks in: "I hope ya flip some guy the bird, He cuts you off and you're forced to swerve, In front of the beatles' tour bus, A bookmobile and a mack truck...")
Aeris Died For Your Sins.
Just roll down your windows, you can already hear the crap they are playing.
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Great! I'm loading mine with Barbera Striesland outtakes, Yoko Ono, Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music, Melt Banana, Whitney Houston, some Pia Zadora, and as much Tiny Tim as I can find! Then I'm taking over the highways and freeways like Max before me!
O ULDN'TITBELOOOOOOOOVERLYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIEA IEAIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can imagine other drivers ceeding the right of way as they scramble at their dials to disable "auto download" whenever I get near. Or even better, I'll take a small boombox and crank ghetto rap, Phish Bootlegs, rare techno remixes, and other stuff to get noticed. THEN they get -Kazaa! - SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEECHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHW
About time guerilla warfare techniques had application on the open road.
I want to be able to tell the twat in front of me to put the bloody phone down and stop weaving over the bloody road.
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How could you ever get sick of Howard Stern? (read with copious sarcasm)
Captain Insano shows no mercy.
Because you have not inserted enough buzzwords into the concept.
WiFi
ad hoc network
*casting
nodes
mesh
I could go on, but you get the idea.
How about creating some device that will let iPod users listen to their own music? Some sort of personal speaker system that pumps their music directly into their own ears, so no one else can hear it, so it bothers no one else, that allows them the flexibility to listen to their particular style of music? There *must* be some way to do this!
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Just turn up dat hoopty G-trigga joint and shake da windowze of all da cars around y'all aaa-ight?
You don't need no fancy equipment and nobody around you needs it neither. Just some bling 22 inch rims yo, a big ole bass can in the back, a power amp rated in gigawattz and da latest remix of "doan make me smack you, ho" an' you can be "roadcastin'" down the road at 3am.
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