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Ford's MyKey system to let parents censor teens’ car radio
BY BRENT SNAVELY

Technology that can block out explicit satellite radio channels such as Howard Stern and Playboy Radio.



The new feature will debut next year as standard equipment on the Ford Taurus and Ford Explorer, and will eventually be available across most Ford and Lincoln vehicles.

“Ford wants to give parents peace of mind that their kids are following practical household rules in the car,” Graydon Reitz, Ford’s director of electrical and electronic systems engineering, said in a statement.

The technology works by screening out more than a dozen channels labeled by Sirius Satellite Radio as “explicit” and will be part of Ford’s MyKey system.

Sirius XM Radio could not be immediately reached for comment. According to its Web site, the company already allows customers to block channels with explicit programming by calling a toll-free number and requesting a family plan.

Launched in the summer of 2009, MyKey is standard on most Ford cars and trucks in North America.

MyKey is designed to help parents encourage safe teen driving habits. The programmable key can limit a vehicle’s top speed, the volume of the audio system and can mute the radio until the driver and passenger put on their seatbelt.

Ford said a recent survey revealed that nearly 60% of parents with teens said they view a feature that can block adult radio programming as important.

“Parents obviously like this type of feature, and many teens are okay with it when they hear parents may give them the keys more often if the car comes with a technology such as Ford’s MyKey,” Reitz said in a statement.

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In some sense its all ready here, I know the ute has different settings for the spare key, would not be much more programming to step it up a little. Im sure other models have the same thing and more premium models probably have things like seat position memory within the keys.

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Originally Posted by csv8

Ford's MyKey system to let parents censor teens’ car radio
BY BRENT SNAVELY

Technology that can block out explicit satellite radio channels such as Howard Stern and Playboy Radio.

MyKey is designed to help parents encourage safe teen driving habits. The programmable key can limit a vehicle’s top speed, the volume of the audio system and can mute the radio until the driver and passenger put on their seatbelt.

All though I encourage safety inovations in cars, it's not the wonder that alot of people may percieve it to be.

Limiting the top is a good idea, and I would like it on my kids cars, however 100kmh in a 60 zone is still very bad...

I think limiting the amount of acceleration would be benificial too... less fuel consumption, no traffic light grand prix's... its a very nice car that they could drive without flogging the engine.

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Awesome idea. Anything to stop my little rugrat from "rollin wid da boyz" is a good idea. All that's needed is a gadget that winds down all windows, turns on interior lights and hazards when parked in a "secluded" spot.

Last time he drove it I had stilletto in prints on my roof lining. Could almost work out the brand.

[GK]

A good idea, kind of like the "valet" tune.

Limiting the speed to 100kmph could be dangerous though, as the driver wouldn't have any extra in case they needed overtaking.

But certainly if it was available, parents would be nuts not to make use of it. How many kids take out their folk's pride and joy and give it a right royal thrashing? LOL! We've all probably been there and done that!

GK