That's all well and good, but the driver doesn't know the location of the urgent care in the next town to take care of the kid who's getting sick in the back seat. Also, speaking from experience, after 25 hours in the car, a couple who's been married 20 years is probably just as well off not trying to make conversation. And I don't know about you, but I can only read for so many hours before I need to do something else.

My first choice is always to read or talk, but on long trips it's nice to have choices.

For what it's worth, I doubt I'll ever have this. Personally I wouldn't pay much for it. Last time we bought a car, we actually switched to a different line of car so that we could get one WITHOUT the in-car electronics (even worse, with a Microsoft operating system). And I refuse to buy a smart phone; I have a cell but I rarely even turn it on, and all it does is make calls and text.

They tried to force me to carry a smartphone for work, they bought it and paid for it and everything, it took me some talking to get out of carrying it.

Internet access would be nice on long trips, but I'm not going to spend thousands for the capability. I might pay $50 to have mobile internet access during a long trip, but I wouldn't pay for it every month; I simply have no need or desire to be connected at ALL times.