Ford turns Fiesta into ultimate mobile hot-spot and cloud-linked cruiser
by Sam Abuelsamid (RSS feed) on May 13th, 2010 at 12:58PM
While engineering students at the University of Michigan were figuring out how to turn the Ford Fiesta into a rolling iPad, engineers from Ford's infortronics research group were doing the same thing. On Thursday, those engineers and students will set out from Dearborn on a road trip in separate though equally wired (wireless?) Fiestas to San Mateo, CA for the Maker Faire. The Ford engineers will be driving a green Fiesta they've dubbed AJ for American Journey 2.0. AJ has a trunk full of computer gear including a router and two different mobile broadband modems to keep it connected. The... Read More
