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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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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)
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...
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.


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