KIA Bringing News & Social Media To Your Car

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday January 9, 2010 @04:41AM from the prepare-to-be-run-over-by-a-tweeting-driver dept.

thecarchik writes "Earlier this week KIA made some major announcements about their future cars. They shed some light on the details of their new UVO system, which lets you answer and place phone calls, send and receive SMS text messages, and access music via voice commands. Moreover, their new widget-based system for the on-screen controls lets you include RSS news, financial information, and weather reports, along with Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn updates. If there is one thing we can take away from this and Ford's recent announcement about the MyFord Touch system, it is that we'll see some heated internet technology battles between car manufacturers." The NY Times pointed out a few days ago that many companies are already turning their attention to dashboard computing, much to the dismay of those who warn against distracted driving.

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KIA IS an acronym! by Anonymous Coward · 2010-01-09 05:05 · Score: 2, Funny

KIA IS an acronym, it stands for Korean Internet Automobile. The new KIA cee'd was named to cee'd make it easier for people to text and tweet while driving, its original name is "Killed In Action after exceeding the speed limit and posting a tweet about it".