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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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or is it useless??? What if I dislike the music played by the car in front of me? OK I can turn off the system. And because I am afraid of listening to bad music, I will keep it down! Or did I miss something?
(I am angry because the car in front of me doesn't move in traffic jam, now I will be angrier because its driver has bad taste..)
I just hope that all the cars they are planning to sell this project to aren't fueled by petroleum, because that's a dead-end market if I ever saw one. Perhaps they should think about a market that might actually have a future, like bicycle-casting!