BMW Using Internet Protocol Inside Cars
www.therawfeed.com/2007/12/bmw-using-internet-protocol-inside-cars.html
From the page
Saved with the link. Notes from 2007 to 2016 are mostly the page's own words, so this is probably an excerpt.
Cars are getting more computer systems, and those systems need to talk to each other. To manage this electronic chatter, BMW R&D is reportedly now using IP -- the same protocol used to move bits around on the Internet. Looking at it another way, each of these BMWs has its own private Internet inside. (props to Autoblog)