Ford is trying with all his might to persuade today to buy its cars today, and not tomorrow’s customers. Now the car manufacturer introduces a function in the 2010 model, which, using a chip built into a car key, can limit the maximum speed at 120 km/h. Which is very relevant, for example, for teenage drivers.
In addition, in the future, with the help of a system called Mykey, parents will also be able to program the key to their favorite child and limit the maximum volume of the car audio system and increase the duration of the driver’s sound alerts with an unheard of seat belt.
“Our appeal to parents was like this: we offer you some opportunities to limit your young newcomers, which will certainly allow you to feel more confident, giving your child a car, for example, for the weekend,” said Ford Buczkowski electronic systems (Jim Buczkowski ).
The MyKey system will be included in the standard equipment of some vehicles of the 2010 model year and will be used in all models of the Ford, Lincoln and Mercury corporation after they are updated.
Ford limited 120 km/h, although on some highways in the USA the speed limit is limited to 110 km/h, but there are also highways with a limit of more than 120 km/h. They left a small gap, according to Buchkovsky, for possible unforeseen situations on the road.
Parents, in principle, will be able to set a sound notification in the machine if the teenager at the wheel exceeds the limit of 70 km/h, 90 km/h or 100 km/h.
A study conducted by the manufacturer showed that 75% of the parents for the car were present in the car in the exceeding the established speed limit. Although 67% of adolescents against this.
Nevertheless, Ford believes that adolescents will benefit from the implementation of this security system. Since most parents expressed great willingness to give children a car with such a system. And if the introduction of this system into a car will allow adolescents to take a car more often, then opponents of this system among adolescents become half as much.
Research group of the US Road Safety Insurance Institute (IIHS), automobile insurance companies protruding for increasing the minimum for driving up to 17 or 18 years, found the MYKEY system key to intriguing. IIHS says car accidents are leading the cause of death among adolescents.
