Don Juan said:jeffryan said:BoredModerator said:Holland, I would love to spend my 'community' time looking at photos with my family on X-Box, but the reality is most of us spend more time in the car going to and fro. Radio may be a dinosaur but it's the easiest form of media we have. It comes with us in the car and we press a button.
The reality is actually that WiFi will soon be prolific in cars. This will put streaming audio platforms on the same plane as terrestrial radio.
While I agree that Wi-Fi radio is coming....it not coming "soon".
It will be a long time before they can cast a reliable enough wi-fi signal for people to use in their cars while driving around.
You can get an Air card for your laptop and surf without interuption on the road via your wireless company. It just uses signals from cell phone towers. If you can get a cell phone signal you'll have internet. I think ultimately radios will have a slot for an aircard or just have it built in. Yeah it's years away, but it's inevitable that it's going to happen. This is all kind of new to me, so please forgive me if I've stated the obvious. I just purchased a new laptop and I've been researching various ways to get internet during extended power outages.