Every car a Wi-Fi a hot-spot?

It may not be as far away as you think. Paul Taylor, the chief strategy officer for the Center for Digital Government and former deputy CIO for the state of Washington, examines the possibilities.Every car on the road a hot-spot? It may not be as far away as you think. Paul Taylor, the chief strategy officer for the Center for Digital Government and former deputy CIO for the state of Washington, explores the possibilities in an article for Government Technology.

Taylor writes:

The democratization of geospatial data and ubiquitous connectivity may be the convergence point in redeeming our love affair with the automobile by helping us navigate through the increasingly congested arteries of America’s aging roadways‚Äö?Ѭ?the distinction among video, data and mapping may become moot if nascent offerings to turn cars into Wi-Fi hotspots on wheels reach critical mass — bringing e-mail, instant messaging, streaming video and audio, real-time data, live mapping and online gaming to a car.

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