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Tweet Tweet: Ford Announces Car Tweeting Technology
by YM Ousley
Ford CEO Alan Mulally announced the world’s first tweeting car at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. If you just can’t find a radio station that’s annoying enough, you’ll soon be able to listen to a stream of messages as you drive. We’re filing this innovation under the “not sure about this” category. Initially, the audio tweets will be one way only: AAA, and presumably someone with foresight on the Ford team have decided that two-way tweets would be too much of a distraction and present a safety concern, though the possibility of audio replies haven’t been ruled out for the future. Do you really want to share your road rage with everyone?
We’re all for advances in technology, but this seems like the next installment in the texting while driving PSAs waiting to happen.
In less likely to cause a car crash innovation news, it was also announced that drivers would be able to stream music from popular music service Pandora and Stitcher, a service that streams podcasts, radio shows and news.
Read more {Telegraph}
Read more {Yahoo! News}
January 8, 2010
More: CES 2010 • Consumer Electronics Show • Ford • Not sure about this one • Pandora • Stitcher • tweeting while driving • Twitter|
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Naraya on Sat, 9th Jan 2010 10:20 pm
Lovely and very commercial idea.
I’m waiting for the best fashion blog ranking 2010.
Love your site, Happy New Year!
Steve on Thu, 12th Aug 2010 2:24 am
Looking to buy 2 hybrids from Ford, but when you take into account that they do not offer rebates now for Hybrids and there are no tax credits for Ford now, its very difficult to justify the 5-7 years it will take to offset (in gas) the $8K extra to pay for the Hybrids…how can it be that much more…might not be able to buy them now as Hybrids were the only way I talked my wife into Fords…disappointing.