Given yesterday’s post as a basis, the next step is adding a built in cell connection.  This would offer you the ability to connect to your car remotely and see what is going on.  It would also allow you some additional functions.  If the system determined the car was stolen, in an accident or if you the driver were in some distress, it would automatically call the police, and begin uploading location information and camera footage to a cloud based storage at preset intervals.  This beats OnStar in terms of having footage of the villains or footage of any ongoing damage they might be causing.

Other possible functions could include checking in on junior, as he is 30 minutes past curfew, or simply checking in on your car, parked at the airport, whilst you are on vacation in Bermuda.   The service would cost roughly the same as a 4g laptop connect card would cost; around $40 a month, and would be invaluable on those occasions you needed it.