豆知识 2010-01-10&01-16 福特同步—让汽车更人性化
时间：2011-09-01 02:53:41
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At a stoplight, have you looked around your fellow drivers? If so, you’ve seen them doing two things: bobbing their head to the music or talking on a cell phone. It’s what we do in our cars. The problem is that we have these awesome1 devices but they don’t work well with our cars. We spend too much time trying to get everything to work together. It’s not our fault. The devices have evolved, but our cars have been slowed to catch up.
Now,
Ford2 and Microsoft have teamed up to solve this problem with the technology called SYNC. It gives you control of your phone and mp3 player using your voice, which means you don’t need to constantly
fiddle3 with your devices while you drive.
To see how it works, meet Derek. He doesn’t tell many people, but he keeps playlists of Hair Bands from the 80s on the mp3 player. Derek’s work keeps him in the car for a few hours a day, and he knows the drill. Every time he gets in, he has to connect the devices and get everything ready for the ride. But even when they’re connected, he constantly has to dial new numbers and select songs. It’s a pain, but he is used to it. Recently he
decided4 that it was time for a new car and learned about SYNC. It sounded like a perfect way to have the latest and greatest without spending much money. It wasn’t until he went to the
dealership5 and tested it out that he fell in love and drove a car home that day.
Derek got started with music. He connected his mp3 player to the USB jag on his car’s stereo. And with a simple push of a button could control his mp3 player with his voice. He could
navigate6 by song, artist, album and even playlist using simple voice commands, like this, “play playlist Hair Bands 1987”. SYNC even understands Spanish and French-Canadian. Now he can change music while keeping his hands on the wheel and his eyes on the road.
Soon the phone connection was the object of his affection. By pairing his phone with SYNC using bluetooth, he never had to touch his phone to use it. The connection was automatic every time he entered the car. Cars get automatically transferred to the car’s audio system.
When someone called Derek when he was driving, all it took was a touch of a button in front and answer immediately, and even have text messages read to him over the car’s speakers. Derek could navigate his phonebook, and make a call by saying “call John Smith”. For him, it means driving with control, control of his music, his conversations and his vehicle.
If you are at a stoplight and happen to see Derek, he’s not talking to himself. He is telling SYNC to play the 1987 Hair Bands playlist just one more time.
SYNC works with most bluetooth-enabled devices and mp3 players. It’s optional on most Ford cars, crossovers, trucks and SUVs.
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