Delphi has come up with a dongle that plugs into the OBD-II port of any car built since 1996 and incorporates a cellular radio. The OBD-II port is an industry standard diagnostics port that can be used for reading out trouble codes, re-flashing ECUs and other tasks. 

Until now only vehicles with embedded cellular radios like GM vehicles with OnStar or Ford's new plug-in vehicles could support this kind of capability. With a cellular device, you can use a smartphone to lock/unlock your vehicle, start it up, locate with GPS and more. This dongle would add that capability to tens of millions of existing vehicles. The big question is how much will the device and corresponding Verizon service cost and has Delphi done their homework on the security side. 

Security will be a big issue.  Until now the only real remote computer security problems with cars have been some demonstrations of cracking into the tire pressure monitoring system and some rare instances of grabbing wireless codes for keyless entry systems.  Anything else required actual physical access to the OBD-II connector. This device would provide that access remotely. I'll sit back and wait to see what security experts think of this after they pound on it for a while. 

He is contesting his ticket based on the premise that he was carrying papers of incorporation in the car and corporations are people, thus meaning there was more than one person in the car. He actually wants to lose the case at this level so he can appeal, ideally all the way to the US Supreme Court. The goal is to overturn the fundamentally flawed premise of corporate personhood. 

Go Jonathan!