Well, almost-- as long as there are limits to it.
I've been seeing more "Hang up and drive" bumper stickers and a few billboards around the Northern Virginia area lately. Perhaps it is the start of a push for laws governing talking on cell phones while driving (requiring a headset-- not outlawing talking-- the first is feasible, the second is not). I can understand why; people who talk on cell phones while driving are generally less attentive to traffic situations, drive in the left hand lane, and drive at speed limit or under (the left lane is for those of us who want to drive
above speed limit).
Now we have the advent of surfing the net while driving... Something that would require much more attention. I can see some problems with this-- especially with techies like me who
would be ever so tempted to keep a laptop open in the front seat with Outlook running to retrieve mail every 2 minutes.
There would be some tremendous uses for this, though. I can see real time traffic and road condition updates (like the state of Maryland has for their major roadways). I can see auto manufacturers building a web browser into their GPS road navigation gizmos and a voice-enabled interface. You could set the whole thing up to retrieve your email, traffic information, news, etc.-- and have it read to you on the way to work in the morning. This would be a service similar to OnStar's Virtual Advisor, only it would be entirely run from the car and be able to display maps, traffic cameras, etc. in real time.
There are a number of potential uses for this deployment. It would be great to have something like this come over to the states-- I'd love to have high speed Internet access everywhere while driving on interstates and other major roadways. It would make more excuses to pull over at rest stops every once in a while.