Technology in the mirror may be further than it appears

Shai Agassi is back in the news with his plans for an electric car. His idea was reported on earlier in the year and now has gotten fuller coverage. His plan would be an energy network system akin to cell phone service where energy for the car is treated like cell phone minutes in a network. It is an imaginative leap forward. The auto industry is also taking a technological leap forward. Chrysler, it seems is rolling out the 2009 line of cars with Wi-Fi and Internet access for both the front and rear seat passengers. Not that we're not bad enough as drivers as it is. So we could one day be network dependent drivers, rather than gasoline dependent ones. As it stands though, the marriage of these innovations may be later rather than sooner.