http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/ Engadget Comments for Electric Bill's Van-Puter does his Dodge Caravan proud http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/Feb 14th 2008 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/Feb 14th 2008 11:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/
Does he need to give the cop who pulled him over a receipt for the $500 dollar ticket he's going to get for surfing while driving?]]>Feb 14th 2008 12:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/Feb 14th 2008 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/]]>Feb 14th 2008 12:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/Feb 14th 2008 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/Feb 14th 2008 12:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/
So I take it none of you have or ever will get a navigation in your car? --- yeah.. I thought so.]]>Feb 14th 2008 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/Hrmm... let me think. MAYBE BECAUSE HE'S GOT MY.YAHOO.COM LOADED IN THE PICTURE.]]>Feb 14th 2008 2:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/Feb 14th 2008 11:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/Feb 14th 2008 11:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/Feb 14th 2008 12:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/
http://www.midiwall.com/bug/#carpc
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I would undoubtedly die with this in my car. I would hope that it wasn't mentioned as a cause of death in my obituary although I suspect it would make engadget.]]>Feb 14th 2008 11:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/Feb 18th 2008 7:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/Feb 14th 2008 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/
I help set them up regularly for police, and they can be a big hassle. And if you want a passenger to ride with you, these setups aren't the way to go.

They are generally unsafe during an accident, and they can be distracting (leading to a higher likelihood of getting into an accident in the first place). There's alot of bare metal that can get shoved through someone due to an airbag deployment, so in many cases the airbag is removed before installing these systems, leaving the passenger without a critical safety device. As if a bulky laptop/monitor/keyboard flying around the car wasn't bad enough.]]>Feb 14th 2008 12:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/Feb 14th 2008 12:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/Feb 14th 2008 12:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/Feb 14th 2008 12:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/
Yeah, and a steel bar would hurt too.

No hard feelings.]]>Feb 14th 2008 1:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/Feb 14th 2008 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/Feb 14th 2008 12:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/
Imagine the look on the face of the cop when this guy gets pulled over watching porn. LCD cleaner in the glovebox, and no that is not 'printer paper'.]]>Feb 14th 2008 12:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/
And then I read "Caravan" and I understood.]]>Feb 14th 2008 12:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/
As for safety, that's easy: wire into the OBDII port and have the touchscreen become disabled when the car is moving or in gear, just like OEM systems.]]>Feb 14th 2008 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/
His design needs a LOT more work.]]>Feb 14th 2008 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f316/jizzajam/DVC00045.jpg

yey me, i'm the shit
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Oh..... I'm so sorry.....]]>Feb 14th 2008 12:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/
Anyway, yah, carputers are old news.]]>Feb 14th 2008 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/
He calls himself a geek and he's using IE???]]>Feb 14th 2008 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/
IE7 may not be the best, but it's a pretty ok browser. At least give him credit for using the latest version, IE6 is horrible.

While I'm not saying other browsers aren't better in some way, I still think IE7 is way more streamlined and simple to use, has the best built-in RSS feeds, awesome tabbed browsing, and add-ons are pretty good for the most part.

So please don't flame other browsers. It's just a browser for pete sakes. ]]>Feb 14th 2008 7:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/Feb 14th 2008 7:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/14/electric-bills-van-puter-does-his-dodge-caravan-proud/
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