Ford has announced at CES 2009 that it will be upgrading its Ford Sync system, the popular voice-command system developed in tandem with Microsoft. New features will include voice-activated links to mobile phones and digital music players, traffic alerts, directions and news. The features will be free for the first three years of use and available later in 2009 with some of the newer 2010 models.
Ford says that Sync-equipped vehicles sell twice as fast as other Ford models and expects to have it available for its entire North American line-up by this summer. Microsoft has also teamed up with Hyundai to release a similar system and Toyota is working on its own proprietary communications and navigation system that will debut this year in North American with Toyota and Lexus vehicles.
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