Project 'Me BooSTa'

[Jake]

I follow @Ford on Twitter, and discovered today that a software update was available for the Sync system. So, let me walk you all through the mesmerizing process of updating the giant touchscreen.

1. Find out an update is available. If you do not have Twitter, I am not sure where this would be discovered.

2. Locate a 2GB (or more) flash drive. Go to syncmyride.com and ask to download the update. Get to the part where a Java applet wants to run and watch it fail, because Java on Mac doesn't play well with Chrome. Open Firefox and try again.

3. Wait for 20+ minutes while some Ford Java applet downloads the files straight to your flash drive. When it's done, discover that they are approximately 500 MB in size. Wonder what the hell takes up that much space.

4. Get to your car to leave work, start it and plug the drive in. Press OK when the angry lady inside the dashboard asks if you are really sure you want to do this, as the car must be running for a minimum of 30 minutes.

5. Spend your entire drive home listening to snippets of whatever radio station you were last playing, as the entire system reboots a minimum of seven times.

6. Have Cee-Lo Green interrupted and hear "Congra-Shoolashuns, you-r car hasbeen uPdayted to the latest vershun of Sync, please visit doubleyou-doubleyou-doubleyou dot sync -" and hit okay while muttering obscenities and almost crashing into a Geo.

Get home and revel in the fact that when the screen is showing all four quadrants of information, you can now see the RDS info for whatever song is playing on FM radio. Wonder if the whole process was worth the effort.