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WiFi in Your Rental Car

Posted by samzenpus on from the I-need-more-distractions dept.

Jezebel writes "Avis is bundling a 3G-to-802.11 bridge with their rental cars that will turn the vehicles into WiFi hotspots. Will we now have to worry about laptop use on the Interstate?" From the article "Autonet Mobile CEO Sterling Pratz told the International Herald Tribune that the In-Car Router will function in around 95 percent of the country, including all major US cities. Pratz claims to have minimized the problem of dropped signals with a technology similar to that used by the space shuttles to maintain an Internet connection."

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  1. In soiviet Russia by GC · · Score: 5, Funny

    In soviet Russia, wireless hotspots wardrive you!

  2. Reverse wardriving! by 91degrees · · Score: 2, Funny

    Fantastic! I can wardrive from the comfort of my living room. Just let the hotspots come to me.

  3. Looks like we'll have free broadband on the run :) by torex · · Score: 5, Funny

    Question: if my car goes 70 miles/hour and my wifi goes 11Mbs, will the overall packet speed be bigger? :D

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  4. Re:Regulation by Bloke+down+the+pub · · Score: 5, Funny
    We may talk funny in olde England town, but we're not entirely stupid. We've had a law on the books for some time now about "driving without due care and attention". Yes, it's vague. Yes, it's a catch all. Yes, it requires some element of judgement from 1) the driver 2) the police and 3) the justice system. And we can't be having any of that now, can we?


    No no no, much better that the law tries to define exactly and explicity what you can't do while driving a motor vehicle. Let's see, item 2647a - watercolour painting, 2647b sketching with a pencil ... 2648a playing a trombone...

    My client was, in fact, doing a landscape in oils and playing the clarinet when he ploughed through a red light and killed 23 people. He is innocent!

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  5. Re:The Killer App by ShannaraFan · · Score: 3, Funny

    Here in the US, the reaction to a sign stating "Right lane closed ahead" would be two-fold:

    - 25% of the drivers seeing the sign would be confused, coming to a near stop on the freeway while they ponder the meaning

    - 25% would dive to the breakdown lane, accelerating around everyone so that they can be the first on in line at the merge point

    - 25% will do nothing, staying in the right lane until they reach the closure point, then will sit there with a turn signal blinking, waiting for someone to let them over.

    - 25% will sit there frustrated, watching all of this take place, wishing they had some sort of mini-nuke system with which to dispatch the other 75%

  6. doppler effect by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Will the packets of and oncoming car be compressed