It's perhaps not all that surprising that, when Ford president and CEO Alan Mulally took the stage yesterday to close out the first full day of CES 2009, he was far more interested in talking about the future than the president.
Gearlog had a front row center view of the proceedings, and we even managed to capture a bit of video when we weren't too busy snapping pictures and typing with our other hand.
One of the coolest demos of the evening involved EVA--that's Emotic Voice Activation--a dashboard-based helper avatar designed to help users "drive better and safer, and Also help [them] connect better," according to Ford. From the looks of it, EVA is something of a car-based personal assist. Check out the video, after the jump.
Creepy creepy! I can picture truck drivers getting horny from that voice and lonely house wives spending all their day in they're minivans chit chatting to their radios
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harley3k January 9, 2009 7:37 PM
They left out the part where you have to repeat the commands several times trying to get the voice recognition to understand you, and then it finally does something completely different...
And the subsequent Road Rage.
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lol January 11, 2009 9:21 AM
´They left out the part where you have to repeat the commands several times trying to get the voice recognition to understand you, and then it finally does something completely different...´
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January 9, 2009 7:20 PM
Creepy creepy! I can picture truck drivers getting horny from that voice and lonely house wives spending all their day in they're minivans chit chatting to their radios
January 9, 2009 7:37 PM
They left out the part where you have to repeat the commands several times trying to get the voice recognition to understand you, and then it finally does something completely different...
And the subsequent Road Rage.
January 11, 2009 9:21 AM
´They left out the part where you have to repeat the commands several times trying to get the voice recognition to understand you, and then it finally does something completely different...´
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