My Lincoln Touch Review
Mike Hanley: Hi! I’m Mike Hanley with cars.com and we’re here at the Detroit
Auto Show checking out one of the new technology features from
Ford. It’s called Myford Touch or in the case of Lincoln models,
Mylincoln touch.
I’m here with Jason Johnson, the User Interface Design Engineer
for the system and he’s going to give us a walkthrough of what the
system is all about.
Jason Johnson: So there are two LCD screens that is right close to the wheel, very
familiar five-way controls so you can manipulate with your
thumbs. The left hand side screen has traditional vehicle
information. For example, I wanted to customize the screen to use
my fuel economy or if I would like to change my gauge modes.
In the middle, we have a traditional speedometer and on the right
hand side are the traditional entertainment, phone, navigation and
climate features. There are some functions that are to be accessed
quickly or could be in your hand to the wheel.
Notice that we use the same color conventions for anytime the
phone navigation and climate. On the smaller screen is a larger text
screen display, so I go to each corner, entertainment, phone,
navigation and directions, sync services and climate control.
Below the 8-inch touch screen, we have touched sensitive controls,
no mechanical switches. Everything is touch sensitive so watch on.
Adjust the volume. I just slide my finger on the slider bar. You can
also with the fan speed.
So, the displays are customizable. So for example, if I’m going to
climate control information here just by glancing down or maybe I
would like to view direction’s information in the center stack
display so I can configure the system to whatever preference that I
have, so integrating technology since it’s Wi-Fi, that allows you to
browse the internet when the vehicle. Immediate it has two USB
ports and an SD card slot and three RCA just for video when the
vehicle’s compartment or use the 3D map-based navigation that’s
available from the SD card. Put into the SD card slot and now I
have a 3D map-based navigation.
Mike Hanley: In addition to the actual touch controls, are there other ways to
control the system if you want to use voice controls? So, how does
that work with that? Is this typical to the sync type interface that
people are familiar with?
Jason Johnson: Yes. So, we’ve improved the interface with voice commands.
Now, we have 10,000 different commands that you can save and
sync, all sensible from the steering wheel by just pressing the voice
button and from the command sequences are shortened and so you
can have a more natural interaction. So, instead of saying climate
temperature up, you just say make it one. Instead of saying “Phone
call my wife”, you can just say “call my wife.” So just simplify the
commands so you can interact more naturally.
Mike Hanley: And this system is going to be standard in the MKXCC here and
eventually offered enough to 80%of Ford models.
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