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October 6th, 2008 at 5:56 pm

Ford intros MyKey to control kids driving habbits

Ford Motor Company is introducing an innovative new technology – called MyKey – designed to help parents encourage their teen-agers to drive safer and more fuel efficiently, and increase safety-belt usage.

Ford’s MyKey feature – which debuts next year as standard equipment on the 2010 Focus coupe and will quickly become standard on many other Ford, Lincoln and Mercury models – allows owners to program a key that can limit the vehicle’s top speed and audio volume. MyKey also encourages safety-belt usage, provides earlier low-fuel warnings and can be programmed to sound chimes at 45, 55 and 65 miles per hour.

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Wow talk about nanny society.

Honestly though, if you can’t handle a vehicle up to 100 miles per hour, you simply shouldn’t be on the road.

Willy on November 11th, 2008

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