IN DEPTH: Ford's vision for the connected car
A few years ago, car makers thought they were going to be phone manufacturers as well. "You were going to have your home number, your office number and a phone number for the car too," Ford's in-house futurist Sheryl Connelly remembers. That wasn't practical.Not only are car makers not mobile phone experts, but a built-in phone would be out of date long before the car itself - imagine a new car coming with MySpace integration. "The average car on the road is 10 or 11 years old," Connelly points out....
Published By: Tech Radar - Friday, 29 June, 2012

