Posted on 04/07/2009 3:54:16 PM PDT by JoeProBono
Ford Motor and Opera Software have announced a collaboration to add Web browsing to the Internet-enabled in-dash computers that Ford is installing in some of its trucks and vans.
The built-in Ford Work Solutions computer, which is being marketed to contractors, farmers, construction workers and business owners, is equipped with Microsoft Auto, a version of the Windows CE operating system.
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Not a Ford Truck, but rather a Porn Truck.
I hope they can apply it to existing trucks with the onboard OS. The OS can be updated via flash drive or DVD. If not, I bought a truck a year too early... ;(
They really need to get on with the electronic eyes for vehicles if they keep adding distractions for the driver....
Just what we need another way for some idiot to get me or my family into and accedent!
-PJ
You can use the radio, CD, navigation system and phone while driving, but for safety reasons, the computer and Internet access work only while the vehicle is parked. Also, the system does not allow you to stream Internet audio or video, even while stationary.
Who will be the first to load Linux on it?
>Ford Motor and Opera Software have announced a collaboration to add Web browsing to the Internet-enabled in-dash computers that Ford is installing in some of its trucks and vans.
Oh, _this_ is going to end well... [/sarc][/cynic][/ambulance]
>I’d like to see a HUD built into the windshield, one that puts “target” boxes around the cars in the view, and tagged with their relative speed vs. mine, maybe a 4-sec projection of direction, and a “rear view” of same.
Then tie that system in to the machine-guns and missile-systems... :D
Sorry, but it reminds me of this classic:
I enjoy the Web as much as anybody here, but as a driver, I have a very, very bad feeling about this.
I am a full time freelance photographer. It’s a tough way to make a living these days, especially with all the newspaper shooters being cut loose these days to find their way in the wilderness. I make it a point to never be without easy access to my camera. And, of course, I make certain the camera is ready to use at a moment’s notice. The one day, or one of the few, that I violated my own rule and had a camera with no memory card in it on beside me on the front seat I paid for the oversight by missing what would have been one of the best pictures of my shooting career. I am sitting in the left turn lane waiting for the light to change to me and a car pulls up to my right. The lady driving the car uses her time at the red light to smoke a cigarette, apply makeup using the rear view mirror and talk on her cell phone, all at the same time. It was quite a sight. Alas, I can only treat it like an angler describes “the one that got away.”
Our law enforcement vehicles in the area have computer aided dispatch terminals in the front seat. I see police officers cruising down the road, trying to read their computer terminal and talking on the cell phone. Not a real good example.
The earlier poster got it right, they need to be working on ways to make drivers pay more attention to the task at hand rather than finding new ways to distract them!
Paintball guns to mark the bad drivers.
Are they going to attach cables to guide the trucks? As if people don’t swerve enough with cell phones, GPS, radio, DVD players etc...
There's porn on the internet?
gives a whole new meaning to the phrase the Blue Screen of Death...
That would be nice but a car under $200,000 has a certain allure.
How much would it be to integrate these technologies if you don't have to also wire them to a weapons system? Throw in a dual core CPU, an 8Gb flash drive, maybe a radar detector, a radar speed gun (Ramsey sells a kit for $70), and you're halfway there.
-PJ
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