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Wired has a link to an auto industry blogger who is maybe a little too enthusiastic about what he says is The Next Big Thing in cars: hard drives.
Yes, that's right. The incredible innovation of yesterday's technology tomorrow! Great big fat hard drives to hold all of your MP3s, videos, even store applications that will run on a dashboard GUI that will provide you will assorted data like mileage, GPS data, and what-have-you.
As the Wired post and several commenters on the blogger's site point out, he's looking in the wrong direction to be singing the praises of spinning platters when flash storage is expanding by leaps and bounds, plummeting in costs, and doesn't have the physical shock and environmental conditions issues that traditional platter drives have. But maybe he read this post at ITWorld about Sony's new "airbag" shock-protection system for hard drives.
After all, Detroit went for airbags once, so surely they'll do it again. Of course, that'll push the timetable for adoption off by 25-30 years.
Dad's Audi S4 has two memory stick receptors behind the flip down radio. It let's you play all sorts of media quickly and easily and the interface on the radio recognizes everything. I'm jealous.
Posted by jo [URL] at 07/13/07
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