Cars are complex organisms, built out of thousands of discreet parts that are jigsawed together into a single machine with one basic goal: Get you where you need to go as quickly and comfortable as possible. The process takes time, is full of compromises, and is never really over; with one year’s model fine-tuned into the next as the vehicles are forever refined around the latest technology or trends.
To get a glimpse at how this process works, I decided to look at how Ford went about designing and testing a single element of an automobile’s complex whole: the Sync 3 infotainment system, which is coming first to the new 2016 Ford Escape. Over the course of roughly 24 months, Ford designers and engineers embarked on this seven-part process to produce this product, which enters the showroom as a car’s ability to work seamlessly with a driver’s phone drifts out of “luxury” and into the “expected”.

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