Do office technologies in cars make us more productive or less safe?
How much is too much? Weigh in. Add your thoughts in the Reader Comments section below. These are just the sorts of things Campbell says she needs. She longs for the day when her RAV 4 can signal when she is entering an area with wi-fi access so she can park, shoot off some e-mails and then get back on the road. Until cars can become completely effective as second offices, small-business owners will still have to endure inconveniences, such as keeping an eye out for public libraries and coffee houses, as is necessary for one small-business owner Campbell knows. “She had to get a document off quickly, but her Internet connection at her home office wasn’t working,” Campbell recalls. “She ended up at a Caribou Coffee parking lot at 10:30 at night using their wi-fi signal to finish the project.” With any luck, when in-car technologies improve, someday she might be able to stop just for the coffee.
