It's a great reminder to get in the car and then drive, from work, an hour back home to deal with the wash.

A washing machine needs an wifi/lan/internet connection as much as an ottoman needs an oil pump. A wifi connection on that type of machine doesn't do anything remotely interesting (no pun intended) to automate its functionality. Nothing that isn't already accomplished with timers and sensors already built into machines for over a decade. The benefit of automation comes in removing/lessening the manual portion of the activity. A wifi connection can't do this.