If you don’t already know about Escort Live, you probably should.
The app links up with an Escort radar detector via Bluetooth, and when your detector catches a signal bandwidth that might be a police speed gun or red light camera, it sends the data into the software’s global database. It works like Trapster or Waze by sharing speed-trap sites and plotting trouble spots on its integrated map. Should you hit a false alarm, the software lets you store the signal, so on your morning commute you’re not dealing with constant beeps triggered by the convenience store’s automatic door sensor. The price comes to $50 annually, plus $100 for the Bluetooth-enabled SmartCord.
The latest addition to Escort Live’s features list is access to MyAssist’s services, which means access to a live concierge who will set up hotel reservations, get you sports tickets, call a tow truck, find a translator, or send an ambulance. The service can be found in integrated Ford models with communications and entertainment setups. Customers who buy an Escort radar detector and Escort Live receive membership to MyAssist for free. Users launch the MyAssist app and it direct-dials to a service rep.
On its own, the service costs $10 per month for up to five monthly requests, or $50 a year for 25 monthly requests. Users connect to call centers in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, and Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Services on record for the company include: finding a three-piece jazz group with a Louis Armstrong look-alike to play at a wedding proposal, finding a harmonica in the Dominican Republic, and moving a blood-transfusion patient from a cruise ship to a Miami hospital. Okay then...
