Podcasts by The Edge of the Road Podcast
An exploration of the new technology of driving, beginning with a 2012 Ford Focus and resuming with a Tesla Model 3.
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EOR 54 Bozeman Boys from 2021-10-06T02:57:26
Colter and Jaego Short are my guests for this episode of the podcast, e...
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EOR 51 Boulder Bound from 2021-09-25T21:30:58
EOR 44 Does YOUR Car Company Make Housecalls? Tesla Does. from 2018-06-17T02:03:11
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EOR 42 Bumper to Bumper from 2018-06-01T18:59:01
EOR 34 Driving East from 2012-05-23T20:47:43
Three topics from our 2,000-mile drive from Denver to Cambridge, Mass., last week in our trusty 2012 Ford Focus named Henry:
1) If you leave the car running and walk off with the smart ke...
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TKC 33 Darlene Learns Parking Assist from 2012-05-08T18:13
This past Sunday morning, which happened to be our 28th wedding anniversary, Darlene and I and the Yorkie Claire drove to a quiet residential neighbohood of Denver for a parking-assist marathon....
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EOR 32 Listening to Podcasts from 2012-04-25T13:51:36
Since I imagine some of you are listening to The Edge of the Road in your car, I thought I would explore the way I listen to podcasts in Henry, our 2012 Ford Focus who turns one year old today. ...
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How to Name Favorite Destinations from 2012-04-12T14:54
It turns out you can name favorite destinations with MyFord Touch SYNC, as I found out on our 2012 Ford Focus with help from a SYNC agent in a chat session last night. From the home scr...
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EOR 31 Darlene on the Update from 2012-04-11T23:09:42
For this episode, my wife Darlene joined me in our 2012 Ford Focus named Henry for a chat about the Performance Upgrade that I installed two weeks ago. As usual, she gives a candid reaction to b...
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EOR 30 Live from a MyFord Touch Upgrade Installation... from 2012-03-28T21:49:50
I'm happy to report that the Performance Upgrade that arrived on a USB stick and SD card for my 2012 Ford Focus has renewed my faith in the technology, and I am hereby continuing the podcast. Ph...
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EOR 29 First Look at MyFord Touch Upgrade from 2012-03-25T20:53:21
During my time at South by Southwest Interactive in Austin, I ran into Scott Monty, Ford's head of social media, who was introducing an event that Ford s...
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EOR 28 Reluctant Sabbatical from 2012-01-25T21:33
With this episode, I am going to take an extended break from the podcast.
My frustrations with MyFord Touch have reached critical mass, leading me actually to consider selling our 2012 Fo...
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EOR 27 Phone Home from 2012-01-12T01:05:42
For this episode, I have included an NPR story about the National Transportation Safety Bo...
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EOR 26 Back in Denver from 2011-12-28T23:59
After driving a low-tech borrowed Volvo for a month back in Cambridge, I return to our 2012 Ford Focus named Henry with a sense that I drive more safely when I'm not glancing at a screen inside ...
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EOR 25 Gene Izsak from 2011-12-15T01:58:27
For this episode I visited with a real-llife car shopper in Toledo, Ohio. Gene Izsac is an emergency room pediatrician at a hospital in Toledo. His daily commute to work is 2.8 miles,...
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EOR 24 Ford's Gary Jablonski from 2011-12-01T00:51
I spoke today (November 30) with Gary Jablonski, Ford's product development manager for infotainment systems, including SYNC. He provided details of the major MyFord Touch update coming early ne...
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EOR 23 Waiting for the Update from 2011-11-17T02:44:54
Gene Izsak of Toledo, Ohio, asks if I would still recommend a car with the MyFord Touch SYNC system, given the reliability problems I've experienced and that have been reported elsewhere. The an...
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EOR 22 Mile High Chat from 2011-11-02T21:26:45
Four topics are on my mind today in Denver:
1) How to make peace with the time it takes for the Navigation system to boot up and become operative. How do YOU avoid frustration when it tak...
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EOR 21 SYNC Meets Siri from 2011-10-19T17:51:40
As soon as I left the Apple Store in South Portland, Maine, Friday morning with my new iPhone 4S I paired it with our 2012 Ford Focus to see if the TXT...
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EOR 20 Sorry, Mac Users - But Wait! from 2011-10-06T00:27
UPDATE: (10/6/11) - First of all, my apology for getting the month wrong in the audio. It was recorded on OCTOBER 5th, not September. Secondly, the SYNC rep had it wrong. Today I was ab...
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EOR 19 Dave Gersabeck from 2011-09-22T01:57
I spoke today - September 21, 2001 - with Dave Gersabeck, Ford's Manager for SYNC Services, about ...
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EOR 18 Hard Reset from 2011-09-08T00:07:36
In our first four months of owning Henry, our 2012 Ford Focus, I have not had to perform a hard reset. Until today, that is. A problem connecting to SYNC Services did not resolve itself after a ...
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EOR 17 How to Get Home from 2011-08-24T22:20:15
This morning, thanks to help from a smart SYNC phone support tech, I figured out how to back out of a Navigation session with a single press of the MyFord Touch screen. Up till now, I've had fr...
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EOR 16 Beach Tips from 2011-08-10T20:09:47
In this episode, recorded while parked near the Atlantic at Ocean Park, Maine, I try to figure out what difference it makes if you turn Confirmation Prompts on under the Voice Command Settings o...
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EOR 15 SYNC My iTunes from 2011-07-28T02:36:52
I have not had any serious problems playing my iTunes media with SYNC MyFord Touch on our 2012 Ford Focus, except that sometimes the indexing seems to take longer than I'd like. But I'm always ...
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EOR 14 Dave Gersabeck on SYNC Services from 2011-07-20T14:33
On Monday, July 18, I had a chance to visit by Skype and phone with Dave Gersabeck, Ford's product...
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EOR 13 Two Stories About Safety from 2011-07-13T15:15:18
Ford this week announced beta testing for a new Operator Assist feature for the cloud-based network of SYNC Services. I ...
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EOR 12 Unhappy Camper from 2011-07-07T01:32:37
Two master resets in one week do not a happy 2012 Focus driver make. So this episode is a mild-mannered rant modified with some self-doubt. Am I doing something wrong? How come Henry's SYNC MyF...
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EOR 11 A Sirius Update from 2011-06-29T09:00
As I was mousing around the Ford SyncMyRide forums I noticed a topic titled "Sirius Voice Command Update File" in the category "SYNC Announcements." I'm always eager to update my computer equip...
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EOR 10 Shootout at the GPS Corral from 2011-06-22T16:54
My wife Darlene has been highly critical of the GPS navigation system in our 2010 Ford Focus, part of the MyFord Touch technology. I thought she was just refusing to give it a chance, and it dr...
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EOR 9 Jim Buczkowski on the Creation of SYNC from 2011-06-15T02:16:04
During our brief stay in Dearborn Michigan this week, I had a chance to visit with Jim Buczkowski, a Henry Ford Technical...
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EOR 8 Henry's First Checkup from 2011-06-09T02:33:16
In this episode I explore the Vehicle Health Report made possible by the SYNC system in our 2012 Ford Focus, now named Henry. I was disappointed in the level of detail, but impressed at how the ...
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EOR 7 Free Parking from 2011-06-01T20:18
This morning in Denver I recorded my thoughts about Active Park Assist, the most gee-whiz bit of tech on our 2012 Ford Fo...
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EOR 6: He Who Laughs Last from 2011-05-25T21:16:19
Thanks to George from Tulsa for sending along a great response to Bill Gates's alleged comments about how great a car would be if the auto indusry had kept up with technology as well as the comp...
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EOR 5 The I-25 Reboot Blues from 2011-05-19T02:44:28
It's going to take a while for me to get used to the idea that I may need to reboot my car as often as I do my laptop computer, iPhone or Kindle. But that seems to be the case so far in our firs...
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EOR 4 Avoiding Phone Faux Pas from 2011-05-11T23:16:43
If you are new to the MyFord Touch voice recognition system, you have probably dialed a few wrong numbers with your paired smartphone by now. In this episode I'll share a couple of tips to minim...
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EOR 3 - Two Tips for Novices from 2011-05-04T10:00
Five days after picking up our new 2012 Ford Focus, I recorded my initial thoughts about the MyFord Touch system while driving back to Denver from Buena Vista, Colorado. Based on my sometimes f...
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EOR 2: The Lazy-C Motor Lodge from 2011-04-28T04:19:21
On my way home from Big Mike Naughton Ford yesterday (April 26, 2011), I stopped for a few minutes on East Colfax Avenue in Denver to adjust my recorder and lapel microphone, the better to recor...
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