The 1924 Ford Model “T” has finally gotten revenge.For those blessed not to have seen what TV Guide in 2002 called the second worst TV show of all time behind the Jerry Springer Show, a 1924 Model “T” was victimized as the primary vehicle that parts from other cars of that era were slapped on to create what was called a 1928 Porter on “My Mother the Car.”If you are under 40 this is going to sound like something Russian trolls made up to destroy American’s sanity on social media, but the premise was Jerry Van Dyke — who was the star of the sitcom — bought a car that was essentially a reincarnation of his mom.His mom talked to him through the car’s radio to give him advice in a bid to help him solve problems.If it sounds an awful lot like the voice activated SYNCH system on my Ford Focus, you’re not far off.I can now add my car to the list of “people” who don’t understand me half the time.Perhaps it’s just me but it seems Ford has channeled polite teenagers that listen to me half the time and can’t understand a word I’m saying the rest of the time.I can say “Channel 71” the same way at the same volume level and it will get the message sometimes while tuning me out the rest.Worse yet, when it doesn’t recognize what I’m saying, it’ll launch into a cheery yet monotonous explanation to tell me that it doesn’t understand what I said. It then proceeds to lecture me about what I’m supposed to do — just like Ann Southern’s voice as Jerry Van Dyke’s mom on “My Mother the Car” except more soothing.If I’m lucky, my car will understand me on the next try. If not it prompts me again with the same instructions.It’s not pleasant realizing you’re allowing inanimate objects to treat you like an idiot.This comes from a “lady”— why are all the voices on such devices seemingly always female — that not only has a limited vocabulary, but can’t enunciate too well herself.Rarely can “she” pronounce any of the names from my phone list correctly even though they are spelled correctly.