Monday, January 11, 2010

Internet Creeps onto Car Dashboard


Computer chips and other components improve every year while dropping in cost, allowing carmakers to introduce more sophisticated devices. The automakers’ efforts are backed by companies that make chips for PCs and that want to see their processors slotted into the 70 million cars sold worldwide each year.

But, the carmakers were also hoping to avoid legal troubles. It could be a legal issue if someone gets into a car accident and the cops blame the car company for a system that’s too elaborate.

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