Parents! Are you looking for a way to make sure your teenagers are safe while they drive? Also, are annoyed while they drive? Well Ford has your back. Its new MyKey system is sure to make driving an infuriatingly annoying ordeal. When enabled, MyKey can cap the top speed of the car to 80MPH. That’s not too bad, really. But it can also chime whenever the car reaches 45MPH, 55MPH and 65MPH, apparently to “alert young drivers about their acceleration.” Oh-kay. It can also limit the volume on the car stereo, which would piss me off to no end, and chime every five minutes when the seat belts aren’t buckled. Lastly, it’ll chime when the car is 75 miles from empty. Essentially, it will beep at you all the time and keep you from listening to music loudly. Just the idea of driving down a road at about 55MPH, dipping below and above that speed frequently, hearing a beep every time I do, is enough to bring me to the brink of road rage. Look for MyKey on the 2010 Ford Focus and later on other Ford, Lincoln and Mercury models. [Ford via CNET]
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Ford MyKey System Lets Parents Control the Speed, Stereo Volume of Teenagers’ Cars
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Adam Frucci
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