Avis Putting WiFi in Rental Cars

The people who try harder are adding one more way to chew up your daily rental car allowance: for eleven smacks a day, our circuit-geek brothers at Gizmodo report, you'll soon be able to add a WiFi hotspot to your car. The service works via cell towers and offers up speeds somewhere between dialup and DSL. While our Gizbros' thoughts immediately went to in-car smut, we think it'd be a handy tool for getting directions, especially if the car's lacking GPS. Then again, what's a map cost? Two bucks? – Davey G. Johnson

Avis Bringing WiFi to Their Rental Cars [Gizmodo]

6:45 PM on Tue Jan 2 2007
By Davey G. Johnson
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brianscotto at 07:14 PM on 01/02/07
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wow... I can no longer use the excuse.... "shit, I couldn't find internet anywhere."
Hyman Decent at 07:30 PM on 01/02/07
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Then again, what's a map cost? Two bucks?

When's the last time you saw a map that was priced just two dollars?
Davey G. at 07:32 PM on 01/02/07
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I think when I lived in Austin. Maybe it was $2.95.
Nightwing at 08:13 PM on 01/02/07
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"...we think it'd be a handy tool for getting directions, especially if the car's lacking GPS."

We can only hope this would be the only thing it would be used for. Without knowing more about this I fear this could be just another distraction to the driver which in turn causes an accident by the act of fiddling with this thing.

Then again we can use our WiFi devices to navigate around their traffic jam!