dvd nav

On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Greg Houston wrote:

> > > Does anyone know if the sat nav system in a 2005 300 can be hacked
> > > to play video DVDs?

> > Sure hope not. In-dash video entertainment is a spectacularly bad
> > idea.

> It's scary though because there are people out there doing exactly that.
> Used to just be people reading the newspaper or shaving behind the
> wheel. Now we have to worry about being stopped in traffic and the guy
> behind us is watching some damned movie.

Y'know that idiotic TV show "Pimp My Ride"? The blizzing-blizzing yo-yo
muthatrucka-yo-yo-strizzeet-yo retards who run that shop recently got
fined thousands of dollars by the Federal DOT (NHTSA) 'cause they removed
the driver airbags from cars and replaced them with TV screens hooked up
to DVD players.

Daniel J. Stern wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Greg Houston wrote:
>
> > > > Does anyone know if the sat nav system in a 2005 300 can be
hacked
> > > > to play video DVDs?
>
> > > Sure hope not. In-dash video entertainment is a spectacularly bad
> > > idea.
>
> > It's scary though because there are people out there doing exactly
that.
> > Used to just be people reading the newspaper or shaving behind the
> > wheel. Now we have to worry about being stopped in traffic and the
guy
> > behind us is watching some damned movie.
>
> Y'know that idiotic TV show "Pimp My Ride"? The blizzing-blizzing
yo-yo
> muthatrucka-yo-yo-strizzeet-yo retards who run that shop recently got
> fined thousands of dollars by the Federal DOT (NHTSA) 'cause they
removed
> the driver airbags from cars and replaced them with TV screens hooked
up
> to DVD players.