{"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 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