I am all for having a tv screen in the back of your mini van to distract the kidlings or your drunken friends. But this is insane. A television built into the dash you you can watch tv.
Vince Sigal didn’t care for the entertainment options that came standard on his 2006 Dodge Ram pickup. So he spent $25,000 on a few upgrades.
The 29-year-old electrician had a
101/2-inch TV screen built into the truck’s dash so he could watch movies or rock concerts on DVD.
Nine speakers, three amplifiers and two subwoofers were added for window-vibrating Dolby surround sound.
“It sounds better than a movie theater because it’s such a small space,” Sigal said.
Sigal is among a growing number of motorists turning their vehicles into mobile movie theaters, video game parlors, concert halls or offices. Spend any time on Sonoma County roads at night and chances are you’ll see the familiar glow of a TV screen in a car near you.
It’s a phenomenon of the digital age, in which drivers say they keep their attention on the road while passengers, often children, enjoy a multivisual cocoon. …
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And, he just earned himself a ticket in California: You cannot have a entertainment videoscreen placed so it is visible to the driver of a motor vehicle:
http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d12/vc27602.htm
However he is now ready for total computer car control. I’ve accepted that I’ll never have a flying car, but damnit I want a self-driving car so I can watch movies on my comute!
“Daddy are we there yet? Darn I wanted to watch the ending!”
I’m wondering what the long term social and psychological effects will be of kids NOT looking out the windows of cars.
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