LAS VEGAS: The Ford Motor Co is adding Twitter messages and Internet radio to its in-car entertainment and communication service, known as Sync.
It suggests that the voice-activated system is safer for drivers than trying to manipulate applications on their cellphones.
Ford CEO Alan Mulally told an audience at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Thursday that Sync is designed as a way for drivers to do things like chat with their kids and make dinner reservations, “while keeping their eyes on the road and their hands on the wheel.”
The carmaker is one of many companies at the show that are showing off information and entertainment technologies for car drivers and passengers.
Ford’s Sync service, which was developed by Microsoft Corp and rolled out in 2007, already lets drivers do such things as make phone calls and use GPS technology to get turn-by-turn directions and traffic information.
Now, Ford executives said Thursday, Sync will begin working with two Internet radio services in the United States — Pandora and Stitcher.
It will also connect to OpenBeak, which can read your or your friends’ Twitter posts out loud.
Users will need to have the Sync versions of these applications on a phone with a Bluetooth wireless link. — AP
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