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
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]
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!
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...
gives a whole new meaning to the phrase the Blue Screen of Death...Before jumping to conclusions (as others on the thread have done), the feature is only enabled if the vehicle is in park.
This is a good feature. I can think of a ton of self-employed friends and relatives who would use the heck out of this.