But the GPS rarely works when you're in a building, it just gives you the general area which could be as much as like 10 blocks square, although I guess they could use that in reverse, if you're located elseware then you're not in class?.

Wow, its a ford-ed acura tl, well done guys and only like 5 years late. Do hope the American's need to save their auto industry is stronger than their rose coloured glasses.

Although a little scary in a big brother sense you have to expect this will happen in alot of places other than the UK in the coming years.

Here in Canada as of Jan 1st all large commercial trucks will be limited to 105 km/h and there is a program in testing since 05 that seeks to do the same thing to cars as well using GPS speed limit tracking. Wasn't it last year that GM announced they'd be brining 'enhanced onStar' to various cars and trucks with in the next two years that would allow for the same sort of tracking?

Give it 5-10 years and theres a good chance you won't be able to buy a car without some sort of ability to be speed controlled externally, just look at what they already did to the GT-R, granted that does make sense but its not a far step into applying it on a more mass scale.

Do you have $100,000? if not then it just doesn't matter, the Europa is $55,000+ to begin with nevermind this electric version. The Lotus Elise is around the same price and yet as an electric car (the tesla) its $109,000. Whether Dodge rebounds or not, nobody's going to buy a six figure Dodge, the Viper costs $26,000 less than the tesla, and i'm pretty sure they've sold more than 200 of them last year.

I'm curious about something, you have the Tesla who's platform, basic design and chassis was developed by Lotus from the Elise and now you have this, the Dodge EV which is actually a Lotus Europa with an electric engine. Why isn't Lotus just producing both of these cars right out?

With the dodge it makes sense for product placement as they have access to a larger market but thats where sanity ends as it will still have to be produced in a lotus factory much like the tesla and we all know how well thats going. With the Tesla it makes little to no sense as the company is completely new and has no trust from the public. So why aren't Lotus just making these cars in house?

its too bad all these "corporate elite" types will get to their Monday meetings with this machine thinking they're king sh$% only to have some marketing guy with a macbook pro tell them what to do to keep their company on top and keep their job.

oh yah the touchscreen version will go for much cheaper....all of that advanced haptic technology and the enlarged display, they'll definitely charge less for that one.

GM fanboy eh?

its much more likely that the hummer will disappear, the camero and challenger is a toss up which means they'll keep them both, probably as up market items. The corvette will win out over the viper and the chevy pickups are much more current than the ram which still has that mid-90's look to it.

Either way though putting two f-up companies together doesn't mean they'll be more successful, in fact its probably the opposite of what they want to be doing right now.

there's gotta be a Nissan connection here somewhere, common now its like a 350z literally stretched to fit two more doors.

@Browser

You think they want to continue to update the product according to their new design standards that put them in a place where they alienate themselves from their main customer base who were proud of their high end matte screens... Or in a new manufacturing process that costs them more because they're using glass instead of plastic? I'm an industrial designer myself, there is zero reason financially they'd have this glass screen get through their accounting guys unless there was a specific reason for it other than the marketing of having a glass screen. Apple may rely on emotional design to attract customers but its far from the main attraction and only a distraction from whats actually going on.