Ford Launches Latest Version of SYNC 3 at Ottawa Innovation Centre
Ford celebrated the launch of its latest version of SYNC 3, the first to be developed in-house, with a gathering of employees at the automaker’s Connectivity and Innovation Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The new iteration of SYNC 3 upgrades the system for vertical orientation, which appears to be the latest direction for Ford infotainment given the available 10.1-inch LCD touchscreen offered with the 2020 Ford Explorer.
The latest version of SYNC 3 will also streamline controls and interface and provide users with the option to provide direct feedback to Ford engineers. The system also boasts new features for SiriusXM like multi-channel buffering and TuneStart, the latter of which lets you restart a song, as well as Smart Phone Book that allows you to filter contacts for easier access.
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The Ottawa Connectivity and Innovation Centre was a natural choice for launching the technology given that much of the development took place there. More than 300 employees from the centre were on-hand for the reveal, joining members of the media for lunch.
“We opened our Connectivity and Innovation Centres in March 2017, bringing about 400 new employees to Ford,” said Chuck Gray, Director, Electrical and Electronic Systems Engineering. “These new hires had the skill sets we needed to develop our next generation in-vehicle infotainment and connectivity solutions.”
According to Automotive News Canada, Ford Canada employees more than 500 in Ottawa and associated offices in Oakville and Waterloo. With a new building going up near the Ford Canada offices, the number of employees is expected to rise even more.
“We don’t want to make a commitment to numbers, but we can say there is a lot of work [available] in the work we do,” chief engineer Zoltan Racz told Auto News Canada.
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