{"id":8621,"date":"2010-01-08T07:02:07","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T15:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/?p=8621"},"modified":"2010-05-10T00:16:34","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T08:16:34","slug":"tweet-tweet-ford-announces-car-tweeting-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/electrotech\/tweet-tweet-ford-announces-car-tweeting-technology","title":{"rendered":"Tweet Tweet: Ford Announces Car Tweeting Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ford-twitter\"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?<\/p>\n

We’re all for advances in technology, but this seems like the next installment in the texting while driving PSA<\/a>s waiting to happen.<\/p>\n

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>, a service that streams podcasts, radio shows and news.<\/p>\n

Read more<\/a> {Telegraph}<\/p>\n

Read more<\/a> {Yahoo! News}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6840],"tags":[2126,2148,2145,1485,2146,2149,2147,286],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8621"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11148,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8621\/revisions\/11148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}