Ford Unveils Mobile Office Options

pvt_medic writes "While the concept is not necessarily new, the fact that a major car company is offering a mobile office addon to their vehicles is. "Ford Motor Co. says it will soon offer wireless mobile offices in its F-series pickups, an option aimed at building contractors and others who do business on the road." With a touch pad computer, printer and GPS all included (other options of digital camera and credit card scanner) what will be next to be placed in a car?"

The next feature?

[ChipMonk]

what will be next to be placed in a car?

How about a driver who won't be distracted by all the crap that doesn't make the drive any safer?

Re:The next feature?

[planetmn]

Never will happen. People get distracted while driving even without cell phones, makeup, etc. Ever seen what happens when there's an accident on the other side of the road?

Most people can't seen to drive, extra devices or not.

-dave

Re:The next feature?

[LehiNephi]

Around Houston, there are billboards posted in an attempt to make people concentrate on driving. Besides "world's most dangerous restaurant" (showing a person eating while driving) and "World's most dangerous salon" (same thing, but for makeup), there's one that says:

"World's Deadliest Office"

It shows a guy trying to do something with a chart on his laptop while driving. Considering the utterly moronic and clueless way so many people already drive around here, I can't see built-in computers being a

Too Much Now

[queenb**ch]

I have a rather long commute into work so I have plenty of opportunities to observe the in-duh-vidiuals that I'm on the road with. A goodly stretch of my commute is highway driving and I don't know about where you live, but Texas is big. Because it's big, everything is spread out so people drive 70-75 mph here just so you can get somewhere before next Tuesday.

I'm not going to mention the ubiquitious morons on cellphones, dorks who are busy twiddling the knobs on their radio, or parents who are turned arou

Re:The next feature?

[kalbzayn]

How about disabling any of the features that should not be used while driving unless the car is in park?

Nothin says "Creampuff"

[Burz]

...like extra chrome, a built-in DVD player, mobile office, and crummy MPG.

Sorry, did I say "creampuff"? I meant "American". :-D

I suggest you take a look at

[DJCacophony]

the Maybach, which has an electronic lcd sunroof, two plasma televisions, two cordless telephones, solar panels, champagne cooler, leather reclining massage chairs, surround sound headphones, wireless internet, and pretty much everything else.

European made :)

Re:I suggest you take a look at

[Burz]

Look at it? No... I think I'd go blind if I did. :-)

I know!

[Gangis]

A kitchen sink! /wasn't it obvious?

It must be said...

[Jorkapp]

Ford Motor Co. says it will soon offer wireless mobile offices in its F-series pickups...

It would certainly suck if it crashed on you.