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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Geneva '08 Preview: BMW ConnectedDrive allows unrestricted in-car Internet]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/geneva-08-preview-bmw-connecteddrive-allows-unrestricted-in-ca/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/geneva-08-preview-bmw-connecteddrive-allows-unrestricted-in-ca/</guid><description><![CDATA[Driver with more money than common sense or driving skills + mobile phone + BMW with unlimited internet access = ???]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Todd]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 22nd 2008 3:08PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Geneva '08 Preview: BMW ConnectedDrive allows unrestricted in-car Internet]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/geneva-08-preview-bmw-connecteddrive-allows-unrestricted-in-ca/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/geneva-08-preview-bmw-connecteddrive-allows-unrestricted-in-ca/</guid><description><![CDATA[The same comment can be said for someone owning a car to begin with.  Money, like common sense, is all relative.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 22nd 2008 3:15PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Geneva '08 Preview: BMW ConnectedDrive allows unrestricted in-car Internet]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/geneva-08-preview-bmw-connecteddrive-allows-unrestricted-in-ca/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/geneva-08-preview-bmw-connecteddrive-allows-unrestricted-in-ca/</guid><description><![CDATA[So how exactly do you deduct the driver has more money than common sense? Just because he purchases a BMW? Are you a fu**in idiot or something? Same could be said for any car.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[John]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 22nd 2008 3:55PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Geneva '08 Preview: BMW ConnectedDrive allows unrestricted in-car Internet]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/geneva-08-preview-bmw-connecteddrive-allows-unrestricted-in-ca/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/geneva-08-preview-bmw-connecteddrive-allows-unrestricted-in-ca/</guid><description><![CDATA[John is correct.  <br><br>You shouldn't deduce such things, no.  It could be as well that they have more credit than common sense if they drive a BMW.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lithous]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 22nd 2008 10:30PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Geneva '08 Preview: BMW ConnectedDrive allows unrestricted in-car Internet]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/geneva-08-preview-bmw-connecteddrive-allows-unrestricted-in-ca/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/geneva-08-preview-bmw-connecteddrive-allows-unrestricted-in-ca/</guid><description><![CDATA[add evdo, hsdpa , wifi and wimax and you'll have a winner now come out with a 635xi and a 735xi for the US please seriously. the X5 in diesel would be nice too]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sean]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 23rd 2008 10:52AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Geneva '08 Preview: BMW ConnectedDrive allows unrestricted in-car Internet]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/geneva-08-preview-bmw-connecteddrive-allows-unrestricted-in-ca/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/geneva-08-preview-bmw-connecteddrive-allows-unrestricted-in-ca/</guid><description><![CDATA[This is not a good thing.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dude]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 22nd 2008 3:16PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Geneva '08 Preview: BMW ConnectedDrive allows unrestricted in-car Internet]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/geneva-08-preview-bmw-connecteddrive-allows-unrestricted-in-ca/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/geneva-08-preview-bmw-connecteddrive-allows-unrestricted-in-ca/</guid><description><![CDATA[Yeah but I can take my big SUV, big gulp and my fat ass and drive it anywhere I want, any day I want and no one yet can tell me I can't. Suck it, Europe! ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[iSpec]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 22nd 2008 3:17PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Geneva '08 Preview: BMW ConnectedDrive allows unrestricted in-car Internet]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/geneva-08-preview-bmw-connecteddrive-allows-unrestricted-in-ca/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/geneva-08-preview-bmw-connecteddrive-allows-unrestricted-in-ca/</guid><description><![CDATA[Let's file this under "non sequitur" ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[DKB_SATX]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 22nd 2008 3:23PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Geneva '08 Preview: BMW ConnectedDrive allows unrestricted in-car Internet]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/geneva-08-preview-bmw-connecteddrive-allows-unrestricted-in-ca/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/geneva-08-preview-bmw-connecteddrive-allows-unrestricted-in-ca/</guid><description><![CDATA[wow, gee, thanks, we can surf the internet in the work parking lot, before getting inside and surfing the internet.<br><br>I remember when BMW used to make cars for the road.....]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[dgianfagna]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 22nd 2008 3:18PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Geneva '08 Preview: BMW ConnectedDrive allows unrestricted in-car Internet]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/geneva-08-preview-bmw-connecteddrive-allows-unrestricted-in-ca/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/geneva-08-preview-bmw-connecteddrive-allows-unrestricted-in-ca/</guid><description><![CDATA[+1]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Richard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 22nd 2008 3:49PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Geneva '08 Preview: BMW ConnectedDrive allows unrestricted in-car Internet]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/geneva-08-preview-bmw-connecteddrive-allows-unrestricted-in-ca/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/geneva-08-preview-bmw-connecteddrive-allows-unrestricted-in-ca/</guid><description><![CDATA[x2... and when 0-60 times listed in spec sheets didn't take 2 minutes of idrive prep.  I knew the 7 series with that disgusting stalk on the steering wheel column was the first sign, then the idrive debacle.<br><br>Pitty BMW can't just focus on making fantastic cars for drivers.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[zamafir]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 22nd 2008 6:41PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Geneva '08 Preview: BMW ConnectedDrive allows unrestricted in-car Internet]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/geneva-08-preview-bmw-connecteddrive-allows-unrestricted-in-ca/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/geneva-08-preview-bmw-connecteddrive-allows-unrestricted-in-ca/</guid><description><![CDATA[I don't see what the big deal is.  People tout GPS, radio, hands free cell phones, multimedia (dvd) systems.  This is the next step, one I'm surprised wasn't taken much sooner.  It won't be long before cars drive themselves on the interstates and you'll have nothing better to do than browse websites, like Autoblog.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 22nd 2008 3:21PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Geneva '08 Preview: BMW ConnectedDrive allows unrestricted in-car Internet]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/geneva-08-preview-bmw-connecteddrive-allows-unrestricted-in-ca/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/geneva-08-preview-bmw-connecteddrive-allows-unrestricted-in-ca/</guid><description><![CDATA[Even if BMW limited the access to non-Drive mode so the driver won't be tempted (which I don't know if they do or not) there will be people who get a hack so they can surf and drive.<br><br>Like you stated, when we aren't driving our cars ourselves in the future, it is a fine idea.<br><br>Do you think that BMW was the first to be *able* to do this technology?  Of course not.  Other companies just had more common sense apparently.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lithous]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 22nd 2008 4:39PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Geneva '08 Preview: BMW ConnectedDrive allows unrestricted in-car Internet]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/geneva-08-preview-bmw-connecteddrive-allows-unrestricted-in-ca/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/geneva-08-preview-bmw-connecteddrive-allows-unrestricted-in-ca/</guid><description><![CDATA[Now my laptop won't be flung out the window when I take that corner at the limit!  Powwwrrrrr!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[tankd0g]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 22nd 2008 3:24PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Geneva '08 Preview: BMW ConnectedDrive allows unrestricted in-car Internet]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/geneva-08-preview-bmw-connecteddrive-allows-unrestricted-in-ca/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/geneva-08-preview-bmw-connecteddrive-allows-unrestricted-in-ca/</guid><description><![CDATA[EDGE???? I don't think stop lights last long enough to load up a webpage. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Artoo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 22nd 2008 3:27PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Geneva '08 Preview: BMW ConnectedDrive allows unrestricted in-car Internet]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/geneva-08-preview-bmw-connecteddrive-allows-unrestricted-in-ca/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/geneva-08-preview-bmw-connecteddrive-allows-unrestricted-in-ca/</guid><description><![CDATA[great, more distracted idiots on the road. How about just DRIVING? Does anyone need to surf the web while driving?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Throwback]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 22nd 2008 3:28PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Geneva '08 Preview: BMW ConnectedDrive allows unrestricted in-car Internet]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/geneva-08-preview-bmw-connecteddrive-allows-unrestricted-in-ca/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/geneva-08-preview-bmw-connecteddrive-allows-unrestricted-in-ca/</guid><description><![CDATA[Oh great. And what are the number one sites visited on the net?  Gonna be tough cleaning that dash board...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 22nd 2008 3:28PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Geneva '08 Preview: BMW ConnectedDrive allows unrestricted in-car Internet]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/geneva-08-preview-bmw-connecteddrive-allows-unrestricted-in-ca/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/geneva-08-preview-bmw-connecteddrive-allows-unrestricted-in-ca/</guid><description><![CDATA[What happens if you get a virus, spam, or spyware?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew L]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 22nd 2008 3:29PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Geneva '08 Preview: BMW ConnectedDrive allows unrestricted in-car Internet]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/geneva-08-preview-bmw-connecteddrive-allows-unrestricted-in-ca/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/geneva-08-preview-bmw-connecteddrive-allows-unrestricted-in-ca/</guid><description><![CDATA[The car will explode, because, you know, engineers aren't paid to think of things like that.  Good thing you did!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 22nd 2008 3:34PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Geneva '08 Preview: BMW ConnectedDrive allows unrestricted in-car Internet]]></title><link>http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/geneva-08-preview-bmw-connecteddrive-allows-unrestricted-in-ca/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/22/geneva-08-preview-bmw-connecteddrive-allows-unrestricted-in-ca/</guid><description><![CDATA[You are ******!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Titto]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 22nd 2008 3:37PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>