A little more like KITT: TV screens come to the connected car

Soon, Glen Beck can drive you crazy… all the way home. Chrysler has just announced it’s plans to integrate a live TV service that will surely turn us all into mindless, drooling media-hungry zombies make your daily commute a little less boring.

Starting in December, Chrysler will be offering its new Flo TV service for $625 — plus installation. Just imagine: paid advertisements filling the calm of your car with all the oatmeal and free credit report commercials you can take. Why, it’ll be almost as fun as, well… your morning commute, I suppose.

Boasting national coverage and including cable networks like CBS, NBC, CNN, Comedy Central, ESPN, FOX, MSNBC, MTV, and Nickelodeon, it seems we are one step closer to physically cruising along the information highway.

Seeing that many states have banned texting while driving, I’ll be curious to see how channel surfing is any less threatening (though the actual viewing screens will remain behind the driver). And with claims like “For endless entertainment, all you have to remember is where you put the keys,” it sure makes me lose a little bit of faith in humanity as a whole. But hey, it’s got a remote control!