You can already stream HD video from your smartphone to your LCD-equipped stereo receiver unit in you car, the same one that displays videos from your cameras.
Also you can control your smartphone and stereo unit via Bluetooth and voice commands or from steering wheel buttons. Make calls, change the station, get nav maps, or GPS in Google Earth or Gaia GPS all with touch or voice commands.
Aftermarket retrofit buy-in price for all this stuff is about $100 from Walmart and it’s a name-brand label: Pioneer. Add Bluetooth cameras powered by your backup light wiring for about $60.
Look, cars are just going to have all this stuff anyway even if government didn’t make a law to mandate it. It’s cheap, works great, and you can even add it to an older car as easy as adding any old new stereo.
$160 to have all this if you have a smartphone already. Maybe $450 if you don’t have a smartphone. It’s just going to get cheaper.
Considering that I don’t own a smart phone of any kind (I have a basic cell phone) and at my age, I doubt I will ever own anything else. Your explanation and example sounds great, just not something that matches my lifestyle or age.
True, but I think we need to let the market decide and personally I don’t need all that stuff in a car. I’d like to see a basic car on the market that is more affordable, just the basics. It could have things like A/C, auto transmission and an AM/FM radio but you have manual adjustable seats, crank windows and so on. What we had in 1970/1975 era cars would be OK with me, heck I miss 8-Track. B-) I’m basically “half-arsed Amish” anyways, I’m the guy who still watches a 1982 Zenith TV. B-)