In-car Wi-Fi hot spot in Car Rental
Autonet Mobile, a start-up wireless technology company based in San Francisco, is expected to announce soon that it has reached an agreement with Avis Rent A Car System to provide an optional wireless access point — better known as a Wi-Fi hot spot — to Avis customers by March. For $10.95 a day, Avis will issue motorists a notebook-size portable device that plugs into a car’s power supply and delivers a high-speed Internet connection to passengers.
For now, the service is intended for business travelers. But Autonet sees its service appealing to families traveling with their children, although its unit is expected to cost $399, about twice as much as current cellular card technology, plus $49 a month for service.
A mobile Wi-Fi hot spot that lets laptops and personal digital assistants link to the Internet without the benefit of wires represents an important step toward what technology experts call the “connected car” — a vehicle in which both passengers’ devices and the car’s essential systems are always online and we should expect to see more development in various area such GPS, Traffic monitoring, Re-routing, Weather Condition Alert, Music streaming; Instant incoming email reading; Voice SMS, etc..
In the CES opening keynote, this Sunday evening, Bill Gate is expected to announce new Vista related application for new platforms such automobile (cooperation with Ford Motors), etc.
[Source: Herald Tribune]
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