Internet ala Pony Express

[Tuckerfan]

India has it.

United Villages, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, developed technology to wirelessly connect isolated villages to the Internet, using Wi-Fi in an unusual way. Using pre-paid cards, locals in remote villages write emails or record phone messages and save their words at computer kiosks installed in schools and community halls—and this is where United Villages comes in. Using what United Villages calls DakNet, buses fitted out with short-range Wi-Fi antennas pass through villages, automatically picking up stored emails and voice messages as they go. Once a bus reaches a city with Internet connectivity, it relays the emails and messages to their appointed destinations via the web.

Now we may be getting it as well.

As car after car enters the mobile network (some eventually drop out of range), drivers can download multimedia — including movies, images and songs — or get real-time information about traffic.

“Say you are driving and a car that is three miles in front of you spots an icy spot on the road. It can trigger back a signal saying, ‘Look, there is an icy road,’” said Giovanni Pau, research scientist at the University of California’s Network Research Lab in Los Angeles, which is led by Mario Gerla.

Uh, am I the only who sees a problem with drivers illegally filesharing while they’re driving that isn’t related to copyright violations?