BMW Cars to Accept Credit Cards
 

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You’re driving along one day and you hear your favorite song on the radio. You then press a button and the car automatically detects what song is playing, connects to an online music store and requests to purchase it. You insert your credit card into a small slot on your dash and the song is downloaded to your car’s media center, ready for you to enjoy whenever you like.

This is a scenario that BMW hopes its customers can one day experience. A prototype developed by BMW in conjunction with VISA has been displayed in a 530i sedan at this year’s CARTES electronic expo in Paris. This project shows that the BMW credit card service can be far more than a pure payment medium. The technology may spur on the development of new business models that may even include purchasing household items and groceries from your car without even setting foot in a store. When you arrive, you simply drive through and pick up your prepaid items.

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Very cool!

Brilliant! What's next, an automatic expresso dispenser? Oh wait, their cupholders are so bad they wouldn't dream of drinking on the car.

That would be great!!! Not sure how often I would use it, but I'm sure that it wouldb be really appreciated when I did.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: true dat

Nice, we weren't lazy enough :)

Pay per mile is where this ends, I know it's a stretch now but you heard it here first. Pay per use computer programs will come first to easy the acceptance on such systems, but it will come.

Satellite internet will make all this possible. It’s so close and so inevitable, where you go and where your car is at ever second of every day is on the way.

Yes, BRILLIANT!!! Another distraction for already piss poor drivers doing too many things at once :rolleyes: When asked about cup holders, wasn't it BMW who said 'you don't have a steering wheel on your coffee table, do you?' or is that just some random German quote?

damn straight!!!

I'd love to have that - if I can convince all my passengers to stick their credit cards in the slot!!!