More High-Tech Invitations to Take Your Mind Off Road
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Safety experts say the influx of electronics is turning cars into sometimes chaotic â and distracting â moving family rooms.
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Also: Paul Allen project maps the brain. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Not long from now at all, a typical drive down the highway might combine bits of hands-free jiving to HD radio, spoken responses to your latest e-mail messages, and mobile TV broadcasts of cartoons for the kiddies. You'll certainly all be better entertained -- and maybe you'll be safer, too.
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The digital roadside advertisements are springing up around the US, raising safety concerns.
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Meat wagons hitched to wireless bandwagon
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Materials that could allow levitating trains and ultra powerful computers to become commonplace are coming of age
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Who needs postcards? Use high-tech ways to stay in touch while you're traveling.
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Roll down the windows. From MP3 players to in-car GPS units, CES products will have drivers cruising with aplomb.
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Drivers still learning how to talk  on cell phones and maneuver at the same time are headed for an  even more complex world.
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Some video buffs may want to relay their high-definition programming all over the house or take it with them on the road.
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Try these (slightly) more palatable tactics.
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Satellite-enabled turn-by-turn navigation, whether you're in a car or on foot
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The never-ending drive to increase productivity has produced new -- and sometimes nuanced -- ways to get more out of the technology you already have.
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Reducing the cost of networking car cameras could result in more safety systems in a vehicle. In Autopia.
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A less-than-futuristic surveillance system in San Francisco.
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Also: Cure for road rage? 'Smart' traffic lights. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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In many vehicles nowadays, you can check your e-mail, view Web sites, even watch television, from the comfort of your driver's seat.