I mean, yes, but at the same time, album art is a pretty normal thing to have along with music. And actual cellular data is just radios, but on different wavelengths and whatnot. So it’s not really a stretch to imagine sending arbitrary data along with music over a radio wave. And some of that data is actually very useful, like the track name or artist name.

You are supposed to look at the road when driving, not a screen full of album arts.

My car has four seats. Sometimes there are people in the other ones.

My car not only has four seats like this commenters, it also allows you to be in it while stationary.

How lucky you are. Mine requires me to leave before stopping itself in a tree.

My wife's car has the HD Radio stuff, and it's pretty neat to see album art for songs playing over the radio.

I don't find it distracting. I treat it like everything else on the dashboard and I don't look at it unless I'm at a stoplight or whatever.

I don't know if that is true. Considering one of the issues with Mazda is text parsing. My ford doesn't transfer all the epg data from the radio module to the media unit and it requires a several hundred mb update when radio stations change their logo as people now expect radio station images since it is part of the dab standard.

Wait, what? The station logos are preloaded as part of software updates, not transferred over the air?

I'll let the inventors of television know they were making a mistake.

And ID3.

Ironically.. HD-Radio PSD (Program Services Data) is just a set of ID3 tags injected into the stream.