Daily Agitator
What are you dipsticks thinking?
Innovation is the mother of disaster…….many new ideas have come from the automakers….some good…some not so good….but the newest idea is straight from the mind of an idiot…
Ford Motor Company will connect the car to the internet with the introduction of its new MyFord Touch driver connect technology and the second generation of its popular SYNC® in-car connectivity system.
MyFord Touch-equipped vehicles will feature a WiFi signal receiver that will provide Internet access, when parked, through a Ford-developed web browser using the system’s 8-inch touch screen. Also, inserting an owner’s compatible USB mobile broadband modem into SYNC’s USB port will produce a secure wireless connection that will be broadcast throughout the vehicle, allowing passengers with WiFi-enabled mobile devices to access the Internet while on the go.
MyFord Touch and MyLincoln Touch will also incorporate a custom, webkit-based Internet browser (late availability) designed to take advantage of the system’s built-in 8-inch LCD touch screen. Using the browser, drivers and passengers can navigate to their favorite sites whenever the vehicle is in “Park” and an Internet connection is available, either through a USB broadband modem connected to SYNC or when SYNC is able to find a WiFi “hotspot.”
For easy navigation, the MyFord Touch browser features an available on-screen touch-sensitive keyboard as well as support for external USB keyboards attached to one of SYNC’s two USB 2.0 ports. Tabbed page navigation and 3D carousel bookmark browsing lets users quickly access pages they’ve visited and stored. Fingertip “drag” movements pan and scroll on displayed pages in a manner similar to that of popular touch-screen mobile devices, and embedded support for multimedia plug-ins like Flash support rich content sites.
Ford may not have taken a dime of bailout money…but they had better have a really good lawyer and a huge fund to cover any lawsuits……I mean if a broad can get a settlement for NOT knowing MacDonald’s coffee is hot….or some guy did not know you have to stop when you reach the top of a ladder….then personal injury lawyers will have a field day with this one….
Well, of course, in my perfect world we’ve shot all bureaucrats and lawyers sweep the roads.
However, if the mobile phone makers can’t be sued for idiots having a mobile glued to their ear whilst driving, I don’t see how this will be very different. I’m one of those people who only hates ANY technology when it doesn’t wok as it’s supposed to.
In any event, within ten to fifteen years, we won’t even be driving our hydrogen powered cars – they’ll drive us automatically! Computers are far better at SOME things than humans.
I have a mental picture of a Ford rolling down its OWN window in 2020 and yelling abuse at a passing limo for running a red light. What do you think? 😆
I think it is a good possibility……lol…….friday I was on my way to a lecture and there was a guy driving a Benz with a DVD player mounted just above the steering on the dash…he was watching some Eddy Murphy movie…not bad considering it was rush hour…..if he has a wreck it will be the pther guy or the car’s fault…..hate these people sometimes…..
Yes, give the car a network connect and the means to control it through the computer. Future car jackings/robberies will be much more efficient. No need for manual processes.
Of course, the other side of that coin is that, connected to a network, you can trace any vehicle instantly whoever steals it… but it’s also one for the conspiracy theorists – much easier for the CIA/FBI to figure out where you’ve been and where you’e going… 😈
AW geez….another point I had missed…crap……I am losing it……lol
Good point….I did not think of that…..
Good points, I think I will definitely subscribe! I’ll go and read some more! What do you see the future of this being?
That would be great always good top have regular readers….
Have you got a chance to watch yet? The CGI in that is ridiculous.
I usually dont post in Blogs but your blog forced me to, great post.
Great…
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