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Would you want Twitter and the Internet in car? Ford thinks you do.

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Written on: 21 January 2010 [13:23]
Rafterman83 Topic creator registered since: 20.01.2010 Posts: 2	Hey guys just came across an article from the Detroit motor show, which talks about the latest in car entertainment system from Ford. Called, My Ford (stolen from Myspace) it says that all Ford’s will touch-sensitive buttons and sliders rather than rotary knobs. They also reckon the have designed in conjunction with, Nuance, a 100% effective voice control system (how long have they been promising this for) Apparently they have perfected one-shot programming so you just rattle of an entire address instead of speaking like you talking to your granny. ITunes tagging for HD radio – this will allow you to tag up to a 100 songs that you like and are then transferred to an Ipod or iPhone. Ford’s have developed their own built in web browser, so you browse Internet with USB broadband modem or connect to Wi-Fi hotspots, while parked. And finally, the have said that the new ford entertainment system will work with selective iPhone apps including Pandora, Stitcher and OpenBreak; Pandora streams music, Stritcher streams podcasts and radio programmes and OpenBeak is a twitter app. Surely company’s like Ford should be concentrating on developing new greener technologies and not devising ways we can twitter whilst on the M25. Would buy any of these? Or are these new gismos going to distract to the point that you will be tweeting the police that you have just crashed your car? Editor of Autoebid
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Written on: 21 January 2010 [20:15]
ecoadmin Administrator registered since: 20.07.2007 Posts: 504	Hi there, all nice things to have but not really needed. In fact they are also not very innovative as the technology is already here. Just take your laptop into your car and you get a lot more apps than any Ford can provide. I agree with you, Ford should concentrate on real improvements, such as efficiency. And do you want to buy a Ford in a few years with an entertainment system which interacts with Twitter? By then Twitter is probably a thing of the past Cheers, ecocarforum.com - Green Car Network
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Written on: 23 January 2010 [13:09]
Yardonn registered since: 22.08.2007 Posts: 156	Seems to me, some people totaly forget, what a car is for. The Purporse of a car is to transport people and goods from one point to another. But instead of focosing on doing this effeciently, we focus on colour, look, interior-design, entertainmentsystem. Who wonders, that the standart-results are quite inefficient. It is time for the fuelprices to rise dramaticaly, so we can focus onto the realy importent issues regarding transportation... Alleweder 4 http://www.akkurad.com allmost full weather protection for one person at 0 - 1.5 kWh / 100 km CityEl as secondary E-Car
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