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The dash of the LTE Connected Prius

Here’s a dashboard shot of the Alcatel-Lucent “LTE Connected Car,” perhaps the world’s most Internet-enabled, multimedia automobile.

Included inside this 2010 Toyota Prius are four touchscreens – two in the dash and two behind the front seats – that access numerous car features, as well as the Internet, numerous multi-media functions, etc. In all the LTE Prius offers more than 50 applications

“We wanted to show what is possible with next-generation mobile networks,” Derek Kuhn, vice president of emerging technology, told TheStreet during a technology demo Tuesday in New York. The company has even described the tricked-out Prius as a “smartphone on wheels.”

In a related story, Wired reported that while this vehicle is only a prototype, this technology should be available in the Prius within 3 years.