Video: 2017 Chrysler Pacifica: Family Road Trip Fun ’n’ Games

And the only way for us to find out how far we had left to go was to constantly pester mom and dad, Are we there yet? And don't even get me started on having to stop to reshod the horses. Few vehicles illustrate how far family travel has come better than the Chrysler Pacifica, cars.com's Car of the Year for 2017. (upbeat music) The UConnect 8.4 Multimedia System has everything you need to keep kids happy on a long drive: games, individual climate controls, movies. The system includes: these two seat back mounted video screens, three channel wireless headphones, a Blu-ray player, and three channel remote control. Let's start with the games. Kids can choose from eight different games: Bingo, Checkers, Hanging Fruit, just basically Hang Man minus the macabre, the License Plate Game, a digital alternative to just screaming it in your mother's ears and then fighting over who saw that extremely rare Hawaii plate first. Math flashcards, Solitaire, Sudoku, and Tic-Tac-Toe. But these games are only going to buy you a few minutes of intense engagement at any given time. But if you put a movie in, they'll be entertained for an hour and a half or two hours. Just pop the Blu-ray in, the kids can put on their headphones, and you and your spouse can go back to fighting in peace. Perhaps the cleverest function of the UConnect Theater is the 'Are We There Yet?' feature, which allows your kids to track your trip progress in real time. Just enter your destination on the nav system and your kids get a graphic display showing how far you've gone, and how far you still have to go. This is all well and good, but wouldn't it be nice if we could get today's youngsters to embrace the intellectual joys of a good book? Maybe just one more game of checkers. (music fades)