When watching TV while driving is outlawed, only outlaws will watch TV when driving.

Well said, Jason. Coming Jan 1, it'll be illegal to drive and hold your cellphone up to your ear talking at the same time. Don't think that's gonna change much what's so prevalent now.

There will still be people who drive and text the same time, and there's no such thing as hands-free texting, at least not yet.

@subyfan: I mean, in California. Sorry about the hastiness.

the funny thing about mobile entertainment is how many people spend enough time inside their vehicle to justify it. Sure its cool, but when I get to where I'm going I usually get out of the car. A NAV system and decent sound system make sense... but really... video? I guess it keeps the kids occupied on long trips, but considering how many single occupancy vehicles are on any major freeway, who makes time to watch it? (oh that's right, the outlaws driving while watching)

@subyfan: Also I'm pretty sure that's July, not Jan.

There are places that outlaw any teenager from talking or texting while driving. (Texas)
As to the outlaws out there watching and driving,
watch out for me.

thats all america neeeds is more distractions while driving

Gizmodo is going to loose to Kotaku so bad they are going to be crying and then they are going to stick to iphone and apple news from now on (even more) and leave the gaming to Kotaku. 1 post down a lot more to go, thanks for the idea Gizmodo. I still like Gizmodo (but only for gadgets).

I work in a field where we do some financing work related to movies. I asked my boss once what he thought of a particular film concept - he said he figured his kids would watch it at least 4 times in the course of one drive to Florida and back, i/o/w/ it would be a hit. I have no use for in-car video now, but I remember what little hellions my brother and I were on long trips, so as soon as I have munchkins in the car, I will be installing a video system in the backseat post haste. I value my sanity.

@jerry6185: Oh, please. Same pathetic post in 3 different threads on Gizmodo. Who are you? PR for Kotaku?

So I have 4 kids ages 3-12. This year we took a road trip and tried something different.

We outlawed ALL electronic devices.

No cellphones, mp3, tv, dvd, ds, psp (me). You know what? Instead of a living hell nightmare of a trip, the whole excursion was so much better than in years past. Want to have a good time and have some entertainment? Try haning out with your family, kids says the FUNNIEST shit. Watching tv in the car sounds great until you turn it off, like taking a junkies shit away. Plus our country would be a lot less nearsi in all respects if we turned off the tube and put our collective heads out of our asses.

Oh yhea and it was easy to convince the wife to sell the minivan with the entertainment setup and replace it with a turbocharged PT Cruiser...

That only holds 3 of the kids...

Now THATs entertainment.

Hey and for a tech focused site what is the issue with an edit button on our posts so that we can fix our shitty grammar and spelling. Or even a 'GASP' spellchecker widget.