Running Apps From Your Car's Dashboard 171
An anonymous reader writes "I guess is was inevitable, now that BMW is letting you view and make tweets from behind the wheel, but is it really a good idea to let people run smartphone apps from their dashboard monitor? I guess for navigation you could run your favorite map-app there, but there is nothing to stop people from running other apps on their dashboard too. It might be better than texting from the handset, but I'm not sure I want people playing Angry Birds while they drive."
BMW Not the First (Score:1, Informative)
BMW is hardly breaking ground here.
Ford SYNC has done SMS and Email from the dash for years, and units from several aftermarket stereo makers will link to your phone's Wifi hotspot to run Pandora and other Internet apps.
Nothing in this story constitutes anything new.