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Starbucks partners with Ford so drivers can order their coffee in-car through Amazon Alexa

on Mar 24, 2017 | 0 comments

By Tony Connelly

Coffee drinkers will soon be able to place their Starbucks orders within the comfort of their own car after the coffee company announced a partnership with Ford.

Ford vehicles equipped with its SYNC3 voice-activated technology, which has Amazon’s voice service incorporated into it, will soon allow drivers to place their orders using the command, “Alexa, ask Starbucks to start my order”.

The partnership with Ford and Amazon Alexa was demoed at company’s annual shareholders meeting, which took place in Seattle this week.

Starbucks chief technology officer Gerri Martin-Flickinger announced the new feature on stage and showed a Read full story ›

Source: The Drum