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GM Confirms Siri 'Eyes Free' Integration Coming to New Models Within 12 Months
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That's just great. What a bunch of idiots. It's not about where the eyes are, it's about where the mind is. I wonder how many will be injured or killed before the mental midgets that came up with this realize that. Good grief.
As much as I'd love for Microsoft to be responsible, their tech in SYNC is mostly kernel-level. And actually, SYNC has been pretty much problem-free -- it's MyFord Touch (the graphical touchscreen version) that's been problematic.
Ford reportedly fired the third-party devs on MFT and brought development in house; they rolled out an update late last year, but it came out after the JD Power surveys were already complete. Hopefully they'll improve quite a bit next year.
As one who gets carsick, that would be a death sentence for me! (besides the fact I don't like the hustle and bustle of a city anyway)
I know that Mercedes-Benz is rolling this out for a few of their 2013 Mercedes Models. You need an iPhone for the feature to work. They also said that they are working on more smartphone integration (such as Android). But hey, I have an iPhone, so I don't really care too much!
I think your info is dated...
Toyota is back up there.... GMs leap frog was just a recession/media acceleration story/tsunami production slowed blip.
The cruze is a Suzuki designed car, sharing Opel, Daewoo parts and features.
Hardly an American success story.
As for the guy saying Brit cars are bad, older Jags were bad yeah, but obviously you have never owned a Jeep!
Terrible!
Toyota is back up there.... GMs leap frog was just a recession/media acceleration story/tsunami production slowed blip.
The cruze is a Suzuki designed car, sharing Opel, Daewoo parts and features.
Hardly an American success story.
As for the guy saying Brit cars are bad, older Jags were bad yeah, but obviously you have never owned a Jeep!
Terrible!
I wish this could be retro-fitted someone to older cars. Would probably have to replace the whole audio system though. I won't buy a car based on this feature.
no you are not, in fact ferrari did that a few years ago with the f430 (and a few other models) where the ipod was the entertainment system, when you plugged it in it would load certain programs and youd use it to control everything heres a pic
and oddly enough i got this pic from a cnet review of the ferrari found here seems like somethign cnet wouldn't normally cover
As someone who is interested in eventually retiring in Maine, I'm sure I will come to regret my lack of driving experience -- especially if I grow to hate city life.
A lot of bluetooth systems already support Voice Control to some extent. For example, in my A4 if you hold the home button on your iPhone, it starts the bluetooth function automatically, and Voice Control talks over my car speaker. I would assume it does the same for Siri.
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That would be great if you weren't talking about Indian-owned companies.
So outside of Aston Martin (barely, partially American owned), what is a truly English brand sold in the US?
Many in the UK would claim that Mini is British even though the parts for it are shipped in by BMW. Bentley has been a subsidiary of Volkswagen for some time. Rolls Royce is BMW, too.
Most cars sold in the US made in the UK are either owned by someone else or prohibitively expensive. So I don't agree with the poster you're quoting, but it is fair to say there's no reasonably priced good car from the UK in the US.
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That would be great if you weren't talking about Indian-owned companies.
That's only as of 2008 when Tata bought them. They've been full of problems well before that
Really there are no UK car manufacturers any more; just car factories in the UK that make cars using the vast UK component industry. I worked in a car conponents factory briefly as a student - made plastic parts for Ford, Nissan, Vauxhall etc
MINI use engines made at the BMW factory at Hams Hall near Birmingham. Nissan export cars from Sunderland to their markets worldwide, as do Toyota from Derby and Honda from Swindon.
The UK car assembly industry is in a pretty good state now. A shame that aircraft and train assembly is much less healthy.