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Inflatable Seatbelts…Really Ford?
3:56AM Mark Wilson | Times are tough for the automotive industry. Consumers have less money, the environment has less tolerance and nothing short of new engineering paradigms can fix any of it. You know, stuff like inflatable rear seatbelts. More »
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Ford’s Nucleon Concept: Twin Steam Turbines And A Nuclear Reactor
8:20PM Danny Allen | Say what? Back in 1958, Ford designed models of its batmobile-like concept with lead-shielded uranium fission-plant. Fears of nuclear-meltdown meant it never got built, but it lovingly appears in two recent car retrospectives well worth a read. [Jalopnik and LIFE]
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Future Ford Hybrids Will Tell Energy Grid When To Power Up
6:40AM Sean Fallon | Ford has come up with a smart new system that enables drivers to tell their hybrid car precisely when and how long to charge from the grid—potentially helping you to save money on electricity. More »
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Ballmer Scores a Fusion Hybrid From Ford CEO
7:40AM Wilson Rothman | Today over in Redmond, Ford CEO Alan Mulally handed Steve Ballmer the keys to a light blue metallic Ford Fusion Hybrid not coincidentally rigged up with Microsoft’s Sync system. Unfortunately, at that moment, I was too far off to hear what they were saying. Any guesses? More »
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Ford Winning Dashboard Tech War: Trucks Getting Opera Browsers With Their 3G
6:40AM Brian Lam | If Ford can put Sprint 3G in their cars, and now, Opera browsers, what the hell is taking the rest of the industry so long? SHAME! More »
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Ford Offering 3G-Connected Dashboard Computers in 2009 Trucks
3:46AM Mark Wilson | Ford continues their push for tech-friendly vehicles with a new announcement to put computers with Sprint 3G connections into the dashboards of 2009 F-Series trucks and E-Series cargo vans. More »
GPS
Hand’s On: Ford Sync’s New Voice-Controlled Turn-By-Turn Directions
1:12PM John Mahoney | Ford Sync 3.0′s lovely Samantha robo-voice can now soothingly guide you to any destination you tell her, incorporating real-time traffic updates to help plan your trip. This is how it works. More »
Software
Ford Sync Developing API For Controlling All Your Smartphone Apps Via Voice
10:37AM John Mahoney | Want to be able to say “John Mayer” behind the wheel and have the Pandora app on your phone queue up a station of similarly smooth jams automatic-like? That’s where Ford Sync is going. More »
GPS
Ford Sync Upgrade Brings Turn-By-Turn Navigation, Coming To Every Ford By ‘11
12:30PM John Mahoney | Ford and Microsoft’s Sync is already pretty great–and the new generation Sync that S-Balm’s revealing at this very moment at his keynote is better–turn-by-turn voice direction and more, cooed by Sync’s lovely Samantha. More »
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