{"id":112206,"date":"2009-12-29T18:32:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/29\/ford-adding-three-blink-function-to-turn-signals\/"},"modified":"2009-12-29T18:32:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T23:32:00","slug":"ford-adding-three-blink-function-to-turn-signals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/112206","title":{"rendered":"Ford adding three-blink function to turn signals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/economy\/\" rel=\"tag\">Budget<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/sedans\/\" rel=\"tag\">Sedan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/tech\/\" rel=\"tag\">Technology<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/hatchbacks\/\" rel=\"tag\">Hatchback<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/ford\/\" rel=\"tag\">Ford<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.at.ford.com\/news\/cn\/Pages\/ThreeBlinksandIt%27sOff;NewFordLaneChangeTechnologyHelpsEaseDriverPetPeeves.aspx\"><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"1\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/12\/ford_turn_signal.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p> It&#8217;s fitting that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/make\/ford\/\">Ford<\/a>&#8216;s first European offering to swim over this way will bring with it another feature that The Continent can take credit for: tap-for-three-blinks turn signal operation. It will appear on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/model\/fiesta\">Fiesta<\/a> this summer, and then migrate to other vehicles in the 2011 line-up, starting with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/09\/24\/2011-ford-super-duty-debuts-at-texas-state-fair-with-two-new-eng\/\">Super Duty<\/a> series. <\/p>\n<p> The three-blink feature is not as polarizing as the placement of paddle shifters, but people are known to have their opinions. This writer likes it, preferring a mistaken tap to someone flashing their turn signal eternally. You can read Ford&#8217;s release after the jump, and sound off on the new convenience &#8211; or not &#8211; in the comments.<\/p>\n<p> [Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.at.ford.com\/news\/cn\/Pages\/ThreeBlinksandIt%27sOff;NewFordLaneChangeTechnologyHelpsEaseDriverPetPeeves.aspx\">Ford<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/29\/ford-adding-three-blink-function-to-turn-signals\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>Ford adding three-blink function to turn signals<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/29\/ford-adding-three-blink-function-to-turn-signals\/\">Ford adding three-blink function to turn signals<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:32:00 EST.  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It will appear on the Fiesta this summer, and then migrate to other vehicles in the 2011 line-up, starting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}