Pandora radio is one of the best Internet streamed music applications around these days.  People use it on the desktops and on their smartphones (iPhone, Blackberry, etc.)  In order for you to get it to play in your car however, usually requires some kind of aux jack hookup or some other 3rd party device to make it work properly.  Now, what if you didn’t have to do that anymore?  What if you could get  your Pandora radio stations streamed directly to your car?  Its not as far off as you may think.

According to an article posted at GigaOm, “During an early afternoon panel at the SF Music Tech Summit, chief technology officer Tom Conrad said the company’s mobile strategy will first hinge on a transitional phase in which its smartphone apps will be controlled from dashboard or steering-wheel interfaces, before dispensing with the smartphones altogether as the service is built into web-connected cars.”

Web-connected cars?  Streaming Internet applications to my car as I drive from Florida to Georgia?  Why not?  We have satellite radio now, why not Internet radio next?

More details about Pandora’s efforts in car radio streaming are due out at CES this year.