I recently came across this great little ad from Ford, that advertises the availability of Bluetooth in all of its latest vehicles:


Great ad, which I just had to share with you all, but more importantly the point is that Bluetooth has certainly overcome the point when it was 'just another new wireless' protocol and has now become a standard which is being used in all sorts of devices.

Bluetooth in cars is still, in my opinion, underused, however! Just imagine how much you can do, if you break the boundary of the wireless hands-free headset, and venture into things such as cars talking to each other.

Why can't cars tell each other when they are too close / how much parking space we have left / if they are on a collision course / if there's a hole-bump-dangerous turn in the road ahead of us, which they've just seen, etc, etc.

I see mobile phones as the other communication end between us and the car -- i.e. we need a(n even more intelligent) mobile to get us talking to the car, so there is certainly plenty of room for brainstorming there too. This post is enough food for thought to get you started! (Even though the underlying technologies are not exactly the same -- this is just food for thought)!

This was a bit of a rumble, but just the thought of cars intelligently talking to each other to save us some of the hassle -- as well as some of the dangers -- that driving entails, got me a bit carried away..