I had a wonderful experience when i got to drive Ford's Mercury sable. This vehicle is one of the best vehicle from ford in mid segment.
I got exited to see "Microsoft Sync" tag in dashboard of the car. I was just wondering what is Microsoft doing inside a car. It was interesting to see a way to store Seat setting and mirror arrangement. You can store the details for 4 different drivers. When ever a same car is been used by different family members the seating and mirror needs to be adjusted for each person. Mercury offers a way to store them , once you press the stored button seat,mirror gets adjusted as per the stored data interesting isn't it.
Apart the regular steering control i could find the options like calling somebody, Accepting a call and things like that. Ok Then i guessed Microsoft has to do something with this. Ford SYNC allows drivers to bring nearly any mobile phone and some digital media players into their vehicle and operate them using voice commands, the vehicle’s steering wheel, or radio controls
Microsoft Auto (also previously known as Windows CE for Automotive, Windows Automotive, and Windows Mobile for Automotive) is an embedded operating system based on Windows CE for use on computer systems in automobiles
Some of the features of the sync are
1. Make calls Make calls, browse your phonebook, see your call log, have your text messages read aloud and more , The female digitized voice "Samantha" will read the test message in easy understandable form . Interestingly it can recognize words like LOL
2. Control your MP3 player with the sound of your voice. Browse your music collection by genre, album, artist, song or playlist
3. Receive Turn-by-Turn Navigation, business search listings, real-time traffic and News, Sports and Weather
4. Know about your vehicle health, At least i can know if something is wrong with my vehicle before taking long trips
5.Connect to a 911 operator through your paired mobile phone after an accident in which an airbag deploys with 911 Assist
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