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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Ford patent describes the digital backseat driver you never wanted]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</guid><description><![CDATA[EVA was creepy at best.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[superhobo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 11th 2009 7:17AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Ford patent describes the digital backseat driver you never wanted]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</guid><description><![CDATA[Eeeeeeevaaah!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Markarian]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 11th 2009 3:44PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Ford patent describes the digital backseat driver you never wanted]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</guid><description><![CDATA[What they should be developing is a sophisticated augmented reality projection onto the windshield, side windows and possibly mirrors. This would then be used to simulate driving really fast when the car itself is travelling at the speed limit, so that everyone could get the freeling of speeding without anyone actually achieving it.<br><br>And then "helpers" like this one would swoon and admire you for being such an excellent driver at these ridicolous speeds instead of nagging about fuel economy. Make driving more like NFS or GT, making cars run more efficiently and protecting pedestrians better.<br><br><br>I should patent this.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Stubb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 11th 2009 7:20AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Ford patent describes the digital backseat driver you never wanted]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</guid><description><![CDATA[I can't imagine the master chief would drive a ford.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[fanman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 11th 2009 7:23AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Ford patent describes the digital backseat driver you never wanted]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</guid><description><![CDATA[What would he drive, a Honda Civic?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 11th 2009 8:27AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Ford patent describes the digital backseat driver you never wanted]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</guid><description><![CDATA[The Veyron?<br><br><a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4660115890703519062" rel="nofollow">http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4660115890703519062</a>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[fanman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 11th 2009 8:37AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Ford patent describes the digital backseat driver you never wanted]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</guid><description><![CDATA[M1A2 Abrams.  The gas mileage might suck, but atleast you can drive over most anything in your way.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[kal326]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 11th 2009 9:20AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Ford patent describes the digital backseat driver you never wanted]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</guid><description><![CDATA[He would be a true American and drive a Toyota.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Josh Ladella]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 11th 2009 10:24AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Ford patent describes the digital backseat driver you never wanted]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</guid><description><![CDATA[Not unless Ford manufactures the Puma.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeremy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 11th 2009 10:37AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Ford patent describes the digital backseat driver you never wanted]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</guid><description><![CDATA[Master Chief is not going to buy some jap crap. Most likely a Hummer lol.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jesse]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 11th 2009 1:03PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Ford patent describes the digital backseat driver you never wanted]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</guid><description><![CDATA[I wonder how it can detect the emotion of the operator. Getting emotions from voice? In a noisy car environment? No waaay!<br>Or just getting data from the accelerometer, kind of "usually he speeds up... slower"? ))) Or maybe they are going to stuff the car with dozens of sensors? 1 word - eXpensive.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Speereo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 12th 2009 9:33AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Ford patent describes the digital backseat driver you never wanted]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</guid><description><![CDATA[As long as they don't make it like Guilty Spark then we're fine. <br><br>/Halo nerd]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[bernie16wb]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 11th 2009 8:16AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Ford patent describes the digital backseat driver you never wanted]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</guid><description><![CDATA["Hmmm hhhmm mmmm"<br><br>Each shotgun shell in the Library could mean the difference between life and death, but I still couldnt resist shooting that humming asshole once in a while.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[tcc3]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 11th 2009 8:50AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Ford patent describes the digital backseat driver you never wanted]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</guid><description><![CDATA[@ tcc3 <br><br>LOL! Couldn't agree more with you...annoying little bugger....]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Stereotype]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 11th 2009 11:01AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Ford patent describes the digital backseat driver you never wanted]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</guid><description><![CDATA[Assuming this will give terrible directions, they should also feature the addition of a "socket" somewhere, and just call this a replacement girlfriend.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[TimmyRaa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 11th 2009 8:20AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Ford patent describes the digital backseat driver you never wanted]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</guid><description><![CDATA[if she says it in a sexy voice, i might listen]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[jack]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 11th 2009 8:29AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Ford patent describes the digital backseat driver you never wanted]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</guid><description><![CDATA[Thanks Ford, but I already have a wife for that..]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bratan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 11th 2009 8:37AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Ford patent describes the digital backseat driver you never wanted]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</guid><description><![CDATA[Sounds like something out of Hitchhiker's Guide..<br>the Emotive Text-to-Speech System would be either Marvin.. or the spaceships computer..<br><br>"Good Morning! I'm delighted do inform you that todays traffic is completely jammed!"<br>"Well look at that! You are out of gas/energy"<br><br>In worst case..  Marvin with Genuine People Personalities..<br><br>"Hey! Moron! Wrong turn!"]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[quentecarta]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 11th 2009 8:40AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Ford patent describes the digital backseat driver you never wanted]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</guid><description><![CDATA[This GPP seems to be a good way to replace the driving tutor ))]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Speereo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 11th 2009 9:42AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Ford patent describes the digital backseat driver you never wanted]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</guid><description><![CDATA[I remember reading a (fictional) book with a car that had a system that could read a driver's emotions through heart rate and a variety of other things and then tailor the driving experience to one's mood at the time. For instance, if one was feeling mellow, play music accordingly from the on-board hard drive, different inflection of the voice in driving directions, etc. Anyway, I think that would be a nice feature, and if Ford could make this system not annoying, that would be excellent. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[John P]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 11th 2009 8:46AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Ford patent describes the digital backseat driver you never wanted]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</guid><description><![CDATA[WWWAAAAAAAAALLLLLLL EEEEEEEE!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[spacegravity4me]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 11th 2009 9:54AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Ford patent describes the digital backseat driver you never wanted]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</guid><description><![CDATA[You are all dicks.<br><br>This is a great invention... well, at least while we need people to drive. After that, when we remove the human element in driving, this type of thing will no longer be necessary.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gaspa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 11th 2009 10:02AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Ford patent describes the digital backseat driver you never wanted]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</guid><description><![CDATA[Microsoft, huh?  I wonder if she'll let out a blood-curdling scream when she blue-screen-of-death's...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Inane_Asylum]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 11th 2009 11:23AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Ford patent describes the digital backseat driver you never wanted]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</guid><description><![CDATA[Cortana?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Quantumhair]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 11th 2009 11:29AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Ford patent describes the digital backseat driver you never wanted]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</guid><description><![CDATA[I am trying to figure out how Ford could ever use this as a selling point... "Our cars come with a virtual nagging b$&*%!"]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jesse]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 11th 2009 1:01PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Ford patent describes the digital backseat driver you never wanted]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</guid><description><![CDATA["Your driving is hurting my fuel efficiency."<br><br>"Lisa's dancing makes my feet sad."]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[kkowalczyk]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 11th 2009 1:21PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Ford patent describes the digital backseat driver you never wanted]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</guid><description><![CDATA[Time for "A door is a jar" in a soothing voice.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harold West]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 11th 2009 1:30PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Ford patent describes the digital backseat driver you never wanted]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</guid><description><![CDATA[How could you desecrate Cortana like that?! Shame on you!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kamal]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 11th 2009 1:30PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Ford patent describes the digital backseat driver you never wanted]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</guid><description><![CDATA[CORTANA.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[GZ]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 11th 2009 6:47PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Ford patent describes the digital backseat driver you never wanted]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</guid><description><![CDATA[Cortana is hot.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter F]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 11th 2009 5:01PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Ford patent describes the digital backseat driver you never wanted]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/ford-patent-describes-the-digital-backseat-driver-you-never-want/</guid><description><![CDATA[I had a talking car once.  It's not as fun as Knight Rider would have you believe.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ManekiNeko]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 11th 2009 9:16PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
