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Originally Posted by Dean
I don't know why people want wifi built into their car. I would think a phone with tethering or MiFi type device you can move from car to car or take with you would be a better option for most anyone.
To slightly derail this, I am also disturbed by some of the trends towards cloud based navigation apps. If I am really lost, last thing I need to worry about is having a wireless data connection. The whole US and Canada map data with POIs is < 1.5gb!!! There are uses for live data and navigation but not base map data.
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To continue the derailment... what navigation apps are cloud based? AFAIK all the streaming data is for POI, satellite views, street views, augmented reality, etc. The map itself is still local to the device. It's not like trying to use mobile Google Earth to navigate... and even then, GE caches your local area and would work offline anyway, unless the last time you had a signal and pulled map data was 500 miles ago.
But back to the thread topic... I too don't see a huge benefit to having my car as a wifi to 3G bridge. Sure, it means being able to use your laptop in the car over its wifi connection... but wouldn't a 3G card for the laptop itself be more useful, because then you can use it outside of the car as well? If I'm paying $30/mo for 3G data access... I'm going to want to have it away from my ride too.