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Ford today is announcing some major upgrades to MyFord Touch, that will improve performance, stability and usability. This upgrade available in early 2012 will be free to all current owners of vehicles that have MyFord Touch. Owners will receive a USB stick with a complete system update to do themselves or they can have the system upgraded on their next
Ford today announced that the new Ford Escape SUV would come with a powered liftgate that opens and closes when you kick your foot under just below the bumper . Using gesture-based technology similar to games consoles, it ensures that the liftgate doesn't open accidentally. Todd's Noytes: Having actually seen this work at a Ford Demo today. It's pretty cool
Travelling by air can be pretty dull - you're jammed into a metal tube with nowhere to go even if you could get out of your seat. Inflight entertainment has evolved from one or two screens for the whole cabin to multichannel personal media players in seat headrests, which certainly helps to alleviate the boredom. More recently and largely responding
Ford announces they are adding 2012 Focus and Escapes to Zipcar's fleet in over 250 universities in the US and UK.
Where does Ford think cars will be in the future, that is something that they are answering at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show with the announcement of the EVOS concept car. The idea behind the Ford concept is that your car is set to your preferences. It connects to the cloud and can check the weather, traffic, and your work
Ford yesterday announced a new SYNC Services feature, "Operator Assist", which lets drivers speak to a real person in order to help with enquiries such as business searches or address entry. It's currently in beta and is being offered free to registered users of SYNC Services. Operator Assist is voice activated and the new feature provides customers with the ability
Today, through both Cnet and Engadget, we got a look ahead at Ford's vision of the future of the automobile. The "V2V" monicker refers to "vehicle to vehicle" and it's a new way for cars to communicate with each other while driving down the road. A video, produced by Ford, has surfaced that gives a nice walk-through of the technology