Nokia and Con­ti­nen­tal are report­edly dis­cussing new “ter­mi­nal mode” tech­nol­ogy for cars that would allow dri­vers and pas­sen­gers to con­nect, dis­play and con­trol mobile phone appli­ca­tions via an in-vehicle dash­board display.

The goal is to “sig­nif­i­cantly improve the usabil­ity of ser­vices such as tele­phony, nav­i­ga­tion, social net­work­ing and music in an auto­mo­tive envi­ron­ment while keep­ing dri­vers focused on the pri­mary dri­ving task.”

Would this keep dri­vers safer, or would it just make for even more of a dis­trac­tion? Is com­mu­ni­cat­ing through a dash­board dis­play while dri­ving eas­ier than using your cell phone?

Please tell us your thoughts…

You can read a full arti­cle about the pos­si­bly tech­nol­ogy here
http://research.scottrade.com/public/markets/news/news.asp?docKey=100-097p9762-1&section=headlines