Ford Cars To Read Out Twitter Feeds

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Thu, 01/07/2010 - 6:08pm

The debate over distracted driving ramped up a notch on Thursday as Ford Motor Co. announced technology to let computers read their Twitter feeds to them while they're driving.

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