Keeping Teens Safe With Ford MyKey

From Ford.com:

MyKey was inspired by the determination of Andy Sarkisian, Ford safety planning and strategy manager, to keep his two daughters, along with teens everywhere, safe behind the wheel.

 

Sarkisian and his team came up with MyKey after evaluating how teens can still have their freedom while learning to be responsible behind the wheel.

The easily programmable system features several options:

 

• Persistent Ford Belt-Minder® with audio mute sounds chimes and mutes the radio to remind teens to buckle up. A message on the instrument panel is also displayed: “Buckle Up to Unmute Radio”
• Volume control can limit the audio system to 44 percent of maximum output if the radio is too loud
• A speed alert chime at 45, 55 and 65 mph will remind teens to slow down. Parents can also limit top speed to 80 mph
• “Do Not Disturb” helps parents block incoming phone calls and hold text messages on a phone paired with Ford SYNC® when teens are behind the wheel
• In addition to the typical warnings displayed when the fuel level reaches 25 and 50 miles to empty, MyKey provides an extra warning at 75 miles to remind your teen to fill up

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Ford's New MyKey Technology

From Ford.com:

• Ford will become the first automaker to allow parents to block their teens from receiving phone calls and deter text messages while driving with a new MyKey® Do Not Disturb technology that launches on the Ford Explorer in early 2012
• The most complete research shows manually operating electronic devices while driving substantially increases the risk of accidents. Ford SYNC® reduces that risk by allowing drivers to operate their devices through voice commands while keeping their hands on the wheel and eyes on the road
• The riskiest drivers on the road, teens are a special group that would benefit from restrictions such as those offered through graduated drivers licensure programs and MyKey’s practical limits that provide a technological complement to such laws
• The Do Not Disturb feature, which can be controlled by parents, adds to MyKey’s other innovations such as a “No belts, no tunes” feature that mutes the audio system until front occupants buckle up

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