Islander 84 – The world is only becoming more connected, so obviously the trend is going to be “net enabled” products up to and including vehicles. If you have the sort of issues you’re claiming with your cell provider, you should shop around – barring dropped conversations in elevators or underground, in the Boston area at least, I’ve had pretty rock-solid cellular connections for the last 13 years. And for data, since it’s packetized, the signal doesn’t have to be “perfect” for it to be getting enough data flowing to let you get some work done.

On the security aspects of the article quoted – the last thing that *I* want is a way to unlock my car via the web. One little hack, and suddenly all the doors are unlocked in an entire parking lot – it’s a whole new world for car thieves (car theft 2.0?) Just because a feature CAN be added, doesn’t mean it should be.