why don't car stereos come with input/output jacks?

[gopunk]

life would be so much simpler with these two simple things... if not everybody wanted to listen to music, one of the passengers could just plug headphones in! if you wanted to use your ipod, you wouldn't have to get some cassette adapter, you could just run a cord between the headphone jack of your player and the stereo....

i don't get it... surely i'm not the only one who thinks life would be so much better if this was done....

 

[StageLeft]

I have seen at least one headunit that has a headphone-jack-type input.

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
I have seen at least one headunit that has a headphone-jack-type input.

oh... heh. maybe i'll have to look a little harder then...

 

[RU482]

cause there ain't a whole lot of room to deal with on a car stereo faceplate or in the guts of the unit to facilitate the jacks, I might guess

 

[Blueopticalmouse]

Some receivers do have auxiliary imputs, but I agree every receiver should. About every receiver has preamp outs, but no headphone jack hmmm......

 

[tnitsuj]

My JVC head unit has one.

 

[geno]

I can understand input (which there's some out there that do have this feature), but why would you want an output jack? Are you going to hook up your computer speakers? Heh

Besides, it'd encourage people to use headphones, which is a no-no behind the wheel.