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BarTopDancer

10-07-2008 10:41 AM

Virtual Mom in 2010 Ford Focuses

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Ford has made parenting a little easier by introducing MyKey, a programmable ignition key for Ford automobiles that monitors teenage driving behavior. With MyKey in place, various driving habits that parents may consider unsafe, or merely obnoxious, can be curtailed.

It covers all the common parental complaints: The car's speed cannot exceed 80mph. Radio volume is limited to 44 percent of maximum and, if seatbelts aren't fastened, no sound will come from the speakers at all. Extra-careful and/or paranoid parents can place warning sounds at 45, 55, and 65mph, blasting a warning of potential reckless driving to the youthful driver.

I think this is a great idea. Way to many deaths related to teenage driving. It's being built into the chips already in the keys.

Moonliner

10-07-2008 10:49 AM

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Originally Posted by BarTopDancer (Post 244648)

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I think this is a great idea. Way to many deaths related to teenage driving. It's being built into the chips already in the keys.

I don't think I'd use this for my kids, but there are a few parents I would like to give it to.

innerSpaceman

10-07-2008 10:51 AM

LOVE IT.

Can it be programmed to remind you to drive home when dinner's ready?

Strangler Lewis

10-07-2008 11:04 AM

Is there a penile plethysmograph attachment?

Capt Jack

10-07-2008 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis (Post 244655)

Is there a penile plethysmograph attachment?

its a good day. I learned something.....can I stop now?

Moonliner

10-07-2008 11:50 AM

When are they going to get a "Virtual Dad"?

* Automatically accelerates for yellow lights.
* Blairs horn at idiots who drive too slow
* Turns audio system all the way up for any Aerosmith song
* Automatically scans all radio frequencies for any Aerosmith songs.
*Automatically locks passenger side door when parked (enabled for son's only)

Etc...

BDBopper

10-07-2008 12:22 PM

I think this is a great idea.

Now how about a computer controlled car that will drive for you? Of all people, I could really use one of those things ASAP!

JWBear

10-07-2008 12:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Moonliner (Post 244669)

If the "Virtual Dad" is anythin like my father, it will sound like this:

"No, you can't have the car tonight. Get a job and get your own god damned car! And while you're at it, get a hair cut; you look like a chrysanthemum!"

Cadaverous Pallor

10-07-2008 12:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Moonliner (Post 244651)

I don't think I'd use this for my kids, but there are a few parents I would like to give it to.

Agreed. Not sure I'd use these measures against my own kids. Ask me again when the future kids reach their teens....

Ghoulish Delight

10-07-2008 01:43 PM

Can it be hacked to incur a minimum speed instead of a maximum. Once you past 50, you can't slow down (it's like Speed 2, with a bus instead of a boat!)? That'd be fun.

Strangler Lewis

10-07-2008 03:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor (Post 244687)

:( My kids won't get to see it. Ever. I'm almost in tears, here, at work, in public.

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Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor (Post 244692)

Agreed. Not sure I'd use these measures against my own kids. Ask me again when the future kids reach their teens....

I sense a pending announcement. Or perhaps just a very broad hint to somebody.

Cadaverous Pallor

10-07-2008 03:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis (Post 244762)

I sense a pending announcement. Or perhaps just a very broad hint to somebody.

Heh, nope. Just serendipity. Not my fault two things involving my future offspring were posted in one day. :p

BDBopper

10-07-2008 03:15 PM

(whistling) Move along. Nothing to see here. ;)

(cue Monty Python foot and the Bronx cheer noise)

Snowflake

10-07-2008 03:43 PM

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I'm sorry, Ford can do what they like, but I really still want one of these. And I want the engine to sound just like it did on TV.

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Betty

10-08-2008 07:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis (Post 244762)

I sense a pending announcement. Or perhaps just a very broad hint to somebody.

Yeah - I was thinking that vacation sex must have done "something special".

But speaking of... no kids anytime soon eh?

Chernabog

10-08-2008 07:16 AM

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Originally Posted by JWBear (Post 244680)

"No, you can't have the car tonight. Get a job and get your own god damned car! And while you're at it, get a hair cut; you look like a chrysanthemum!"

I want a picture of JWBear looking like a chrysanthemum. :D ;)

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