Ford Service: Helpful & Insane

[jfdana]

This morning when I started up the car, I noticed something was wrong. No music, no voice commands, no Samantha to brighten my day.

I had things to do, but I did manage by late afternoon to swing by the dealer. The service manager first asked me about updates to my phone's OS and any apps. When I told him that that could not happen without an affirmative act on my part he told me I was wrong; it could happen even in my sleep. OK, so perhaps he knows better than me. Yikes: Gremlins while sleeping.

The good part: disconnecting the battery reset Samantha so she's back in my life (she was getting wonky, wanting to update my flash drive every day; perhaps she's just lonely).

The bad part: Ford told me, at length, that the entire sync system is based on my phone, which acts as the controller/brains for the system. Objectively, this is nuts. If so, then nothing would work if I forgot my phone (as I have many times), or, when I buy a new phone, the entire system would change to meet the needs of the phone. Android or OIS? Perhaps the service dude just got back from a Sync 3 training and wanted to show off. I left sad and confused.

So I went home, disconnected the battery and Sam is now back and perky as ever.

Tomorrow, we truly can "Go Further."

 

[pelotonracer2]

Wait... who is this "Samantha you speak of? lolz

 

[me32]

little crazy.

 

[jfdana]

Samantha is the name Ford gave the voice, aka, "The Babe in the Box," likely after many focus groups. Or perhaps it's Bill Ford's granddaughter. The Ford service manager looked at me as if I had three heads, so he had no idea either. "Go Further" is Ford's marketing slogan from a few years back.

Someone (I think on another forum), set his car up to read texts and then proceeded to send himself suggestive texts just to hear Samantha read them out loud.

The possibilities for mischief (with an unsuspecting passenger) are endless: "John, I'm feeling frisky today. Please run this stop sign and go 80. That would feel nice."

 

[CanadianGuy]

Samantha is the name Ford gave the voice, aka, "The Babe in the Box," likely after many focus groups. Or perhaps it's Bill Ford's granddaughter. The Ford service manager looked at me as if I had three heads, so he had no idea either. "Go Further" is Ford's marketing slogan from a few years back.

Someone (I think on another forum), set his car up to read texts and then proceeded to send himself suggestive texts just to hear Samantha read them out loud.

The possibilities for mischief (with an unsuspecting passenger) are endless: "John, I'm feeling frisky today. Please run this stop sign and go 80. That would feel nice."

There is an australian review of the FiST that she does exactly that idea . Something like "ive been driven harder"