[Wftl-lug] Ford's new car

[Jon Biddell]

Saw it on the news last night from the Chicago Motorshow - apparently  
it does things like announce you have an SMS on your bluetooth- 
compatable phone, will read SMS / email messages to you, etc...

Some nice ideas, but the voice-activated radio and phone has to be  
the best - give it a keyword (Marcel, for example) and it will tune  
the radio into Computer America... A friend had one like that in his  
BMW here years ago, and when he was driving home from the showroom he  
had some stupid woman cut him off... Shouted at her "bitch", and the  
phone dialed his Mother-in-Law.....  Bad engineering...:-)

> --- Jon Biddell <jon at mandrake.net.au> wrote:
>
>> Ford is bringing out a new car - the
>> whole dash is based on Windows Mobile!!!
>> CRASH has just acquired a new meaning!
>
> Right.  I remember a few years ago, when BMW
> introduced their WinCE (LOVE that acronym, probably
> why they changed the name to Windows Mobile) based
> "iDrive" system.  The videos of it spitting out
> key-cards and dashboards crashing in weird ways were
> pretty amusing.
>
> At least Ford isn't using Windows for
> drivetrain-critical operations-- yet.  I hope they
> NEVER do!
>
> -- Mikey
>
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