Ford Sync
Microsoft at CES : Riding with Ford Sync
I’m under-impressed. The visual UI in the car consists only of one monochrome color row of text, plus some buttons on the wheel and maybe elsewhere. 80-s style. My Ford from two years ago has a better panel than that. If you have a high-tech system that reportedly also talks with iPod, Zune etc (though they didn’t show it, I would have really been interested in the iPod bit), it doesn’t cost that much more to make a proper visible panel to the whole thing. As it’s shown here, it just shows obscure strings and numbers, not very friendly. Voice commands and voice recognition are cool, as is text-to-speech SMS, but sometimes you just need unambiguous display and buttons and those didn’t seem to exist here.
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