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Your new BMW may soon 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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  1. By Jay Posted: 11/29/2006 7:59am PST

    Self defeating. The more songs you buy, the less you will listen to the radio = the less songs you will hear to buy.
     
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  2. By Gunnar Heinrich Posted: 11/29/2006 12:09pm PST

    Watch out for that car ahead of you! The idea would work, if the car had the ability to go on autopilot while you make the purchase. Otherwise, it's a deadlier road hazard than people say of cell phone usage.
     
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  3. By Ali Posted: 11/30/2006 5:44am PST

    WooooW that would be sooo cooool

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  4. By  accept credit cards Posted: 9/8/2009 12:46pm PDT

    This is perhaps the coolest thing I've heard all day. What will they think of next, such a great way to monetize online music.
     
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