Intel puts multimedia on wheels.(Connected Car PC offers buyers video clips and PC games while driving)(Brief Article)

Broadcasting & Cable, January, 1998 by Tedesco, Richard

A high-tech remedy for a boring commute has arrived: a multimedia PC in your car. Intel Corp.'s Connected Car PC makes it possible for information superhighway travelers to view video clips or play PC games while on the road. The PC uses a Pentium processor with MMX capacity to offer multimedia access to passengers in otherwise standard vehicles.

In the Ford Expedition prototype that Intel displayed at last week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the PC screen was suspended from the car roof just behind the driver. The technology was demonstrated in a similarly equipped Lincoln Navigator at the Los Angeles Auto Show a week earlier. Intel is working with Citroen, Visteon and Volkswagen, among other companies, to develop the technology.