New Tech for Hyundai Vehicles!

[xdforme22]

Hyundai just completed a deal with Microsoft to get a system similar to Ford's Sync which will begin appearing in 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/06/technology/06auto.html?ref=business
[put jester hat on] Cue the anti-microsoft jokes.

[Deviant]

Yay now my car car even blue screen!

[xdforme22]

Haha, hopefully nothing "vista" will be involved.

[hyunelan2]

I hope I don't have to install windows updates to my car every Tuesday.

[2001GLS]

Hopefully this will just be an option. I don't really want to pay extra for a GPS or Sync in my car. I'd rather go aftermarket. I think these things actually hurt the long term value of the vehicle because once they become dated in a few years they are no longer cool. They might help sell new cars but in 5 years nobody will want a Sync vehicle or a GPS with an outdated interface.

[kylemorg]

This could give a whole new meaning to the Microsoft "blue screen of death"

Either that, or you'll get a message while driving 65 mph on the highway saying "Updates have been installed. Please IMMEDIATELY turn off the engine, exit the vehicle, then re-enter the vehicle to complete installation.

[Pete03GLS]

lmfao... i think this is a bad idea...

[Munky]

Either that, or you'll get a message while driving 65 mph on the highway saying "Updates have been installed. Please IMMEDIATELY turn off the engine, exit the vehicle, then re-enter the vehicle to complete installation.

Hahahah. That made me LOL...good one.

"Press the gas, brake, and the hazard switch simultaneously to apply updates"

Silly Microsoft.

[BobMs_wht2k2]

Lovely. . . you have any ideas how many issues all the techno-crap has caused for the upscale Honduh's? 71 bulletins last year alone. Pre-04 and the techno-race : 40.

[SuperGLS]

Interesting. If it ends up selling more Hyundais then I'm all for it. I wonder if it'll actually happen in 2010. XM was supposed to be in all Hyundai models one year and it wasn't until two years later that it actually happened.

Have any of you used the Sync system in the Fords? They wouldn't let you play with them at the auto show unless there was a Ford rep in the car with you, so we passed.

As far as the Microsoft jokes, there is an internet thing about "If Microsoft made cars" from about 1998 that you should see.

[hyunelan2]

An oldie, but goodie. Good memory James.

This will save people from searching:
1. For no reason whatsoever your car would crash twice a day.
2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would have to buy a new car.
3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would just accept this, restart and drive on.
4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn, would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
5. Only one person at a time could use the car, unless you bought "Car95" or "CarNT." But then you would have to buy more seats.
6. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, reliable, five times as fast, and twice as easy to drive, but would only run on five percent of the roads.
7. The oil, water temperature and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single "general car fault" warning light.
8. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.
9. The airbag system would say "Are you sure?" before going off.
10. Occasionally for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key, and grab hold of the radio antenna.
11. GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of Rand McNally road maps (now a GM subsidiary), even though they neither need them nor want them. Attempting to delete this option would immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50% or more. Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation by the Justice Department.
12. Everytime GM introduced a new model car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
13. You'd press the "start" button to shut off the engine.