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The War with the Customer

Use your feet

October 28, 2003

I chuckled at Toyota’s description of the Bluetooth system in the new Prius… especially their description of using a touch screen for a hands-free system:

When combined with a Bluetooth® equipped phone, this global wireless technology allows the driver to transfer personal phone books to the navigation system and make hands-free phone calls through the navigation system’s touch-screen control panel.

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