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Big ass roof screen that goes "psst! Hey! Look! New coke is here!"😄
We had that. It was called radio. And the Satellite radio. If we could not continue this that would be awesome. Buy an EV they said. No thanks. No new cars or any kind for me.
This sort of crap has fuck all to do with EVs. Why do so many people seem to think that EVs are being enshittified any more than cars with combustion engines?
Ford has an abundance of EV’s and has been making EV’s for a couple of decades now. Automakers track all types of information about drivers, and it’s exhausting and all the new EV’s have all kinds of new tech specifically to track drivers just like ICE vehicles. The push for EV’s is pretty strong right now, and that’s the point of my comment. There’s a lot of media telling people that if they’re gonna buy a new car it should be an EV. Teslas are apparently being towed so that law enforcement can use the sensors and cameras to collect information and evidence of crimes. Then this news hits, coupled with an article a couple of weeks ago about how they’ve also patented a way for cop cars to more accurately determine who’s speeding and this whole present is a dystopian nightmare.
You may only want to think about the good that EV’s do, but not all of us are so blindly optimistic.
Somehow you took “no new cars for me” to mean just EV’s and that makes me question some things about you.
Ah yeah I did misread you. My apologies.
Though I don’t quite agree that EVs are getting more tech than ICE counterpaets. Remember BMW’s scandal around subscription heated seats? That definitely was not an EV-specific or EV-biased thing. That’s only one example, of course.
Another is Toyota locking remote start behind a subscription - when the remote start was entirely over local radio signals between the car and the keyfob. Definitely not an EV issue.
Or, multiple automakers being caught spying on drivers and selling the data. Much broader than EVs.
On another note, EVs are better for noise, pollution, and climate but they still emit brake dust and tire particles, and they weigh more so they cause a bit more wear and tear on roads. More transit and less cars is vitally necessary, and that includes EVs, so I hope I’m not an EV zealot - just been driving the things for eight years and weirded out by bad info about them
“Your brakes operation will resume after this 10s ad”
Skip ad! Fuck for the love of God sk-
Ford stopped making thw types of vehicles I want to own several years ago.
Until my current vehicle, every previous vehicle (over a period of 43 years) I’ve owned was a small, low options, affordable, fuel efficient 4 cylinder Ford.
Since they stopped making anything like that to focus on F150s and bigger, I now own a Corolla.
That Corolla will outlast all of the fords you’ve owned put together too.
https://deloitte.wsj.com/cio/ford-disrupts-product-development-for-a-new-era-01623697330
Ford Disrupts Product Development for a New Era
The product development team took a page from tech industry players and adapted Agile methodologies with the goal of developing hardware at the speed of software while recognizing and preserving Ford’s legacy and expertise in vehicle product development.
https://www.atlassian.com/agile/project-management/user-stories
User stories are one of the core components of an agile program.
User stories are a few sentences in simple language that outline the desired outcome. They don’t go into detail. Requirements are added later, once agreed upon by the team.
For example, user stories might look like:
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As Max, I want to invite my friends, so we can enjoy this service together.
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As Sascha, I want to organize my work, so I can feel more in control.
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As a manager, I want to be able to understand my colleagues progress, so I can better report our sucess and failures.
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As Dominic, I have a hard time finding enough advertisements to view. Many of the advertisements I do view are not sufficiently-targeted at me.
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As Richard, my submissive fantasies have gone unfulfilled. My truck is large and powerful, but does not seize control of my life in the sort of confident and assertive fashion that I would find satisfying.
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As Denise, a Blade Runner fan, I am unhappy that I cannot visit a technology-driven dystopia.
I like your dry sarcasm
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Don’t worry they will have an ad free subscription service where for an extra $100 a month you won’t be shown any ads.
Just take the 1 door free option.
The worst* make of cars is now hoping to fuck over their consumers even more.
* can’t change the fucking battery unless you take half the fucking engine area apart.
Really? My battery is under my spare in the trunk.
My lithium batteries on the other hand I think you have to remove the back seats to access, but I honestly hope I can afford to trade it in before I need it.
I mean, you low key proving OPs point. That is a pain in the ass to get to. For basically, forever it’s been under the hood in the front, and the easiest thing to get to.
I wasn’t trying to disprove the point, I was just curious what ford vehicles the battery is up front and impossible to remove.
And honestly, for how often a battery needs to be removed, under the spare tire in the back is not bad at all, and there are still jump points under the hood and easily accessible. Clearly labeled too.
Probably talking about an Escape. Half the battery is under the wiper cowl, but it’s still not bad to change if you know what you’re doing.
An old escape maybe? Mine is a '21 and definitely not like that.
Yeah, but on a car with electric locks, and an electric lift gate which I’m assuming yours has (could be mechanical, but most cars these days are crossovers, so I’m assuming that’s what you have) a dead battery means you can’t open the trunk latch. It’s absolutely a stupid place to put it. You either have to jump it to open the hatch, or go over the back seats while taking out the floor panels to get to it. My own car, the battery is under the hood, but there’s 2 plastic pieces that need to come off via push clips, and if you’re stranded and don’t have something to push in the clips and pull them out, you’re going to have to rip the piece off to get to the battery and break the clips or the plastic piece. It’s fairly simple, but that plastic serves almost no purpose.
My car was too cheap to have an electric liftgate, though I don’t know if I can open it with a dead battery - never tried, and never had a battery so dead it needed replacing that urgently. Very possible it doesn’t open with a dead battery though, at least if the vehicle is locked when the battery dies.
A pain in the ass was Chrysler’s brilliant idea to put the battery in the wheel well. You have to take the tire off, remove the fender liner then pray the hold down bolts don’t break (they will) then deal with trying to get the cables off with hardly any room.
Although the chances of me buying a Ford are extremely small, the odds of me getting a car with ads are 0%
If other people buy these, you won’t have much of a choice for much longer. I predict every auto manufacturer jumping directly onto this bandwagon if it doesn’t sink Ford’s sales (it won’t).
People like you and I are going to end up driving 2005 Honda “classic cars” 30 years past their lifespan.
The all new Downy fabreeze! Bam! 💥💥💥💥💥🤣.
Bleeding to death while Listening to a fabreeze commercial.
“I’ll be right with you, grampsi, just wanna hear this laundry jingle one last time!”
I’ve been saying it for years - business people are the scum of the earth. The whole situation is so stupid. Why do we train people how to
maketake as much money as they can… why not teach them to not be assholes instead?I knew someone who taught Marketing at a business school and we had some really weird discussions. They do teach students not to be assholes. They do teach ethics. They do teach respect for the viewer. But what they teach for Marketing is very different from what we experience from Marketing.
From my experiences it goes more like this “In an ideal world, we’d behave this way. We’re not in an ideal world though and your competitors have no problem doing this so you should know what to do, in case the market determines it’s the best course.” with a knowing wink thrown in.
No plan or ethical framework survives contact with the shareholders.
I want to blame shareholders. The constant drive to fuck the people working for you to make an extra 10 cents is disgusting. Record profits though! Here have a pizza party, only 1 slice per person though, more isn’t in the budget.
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Amazing. there will be one car manufacturer with this garbage and the rest of them won’t be allowed to use this parented technology
No, they’ll just license it to all the other car makers.
Wait is there a way to invent awful things and then patent troll so that nobody can actually bring them to market?
I like how you think
If it gets used at all, that would be the best case scenario.
And it might even go down like things have with GM and their blocking Android Auto and Carplay (affecting their bottom line). And it might even affect enough that they’d stop.
But that’d be the beat case scenario (still feasible, even in hypercapitalismworld. But unlikely)
Chinese EVs it is then
I went into my truck and disconnected the LTE antenna now it can’t phone home for all the tracking
my vehicle of choice has a carburetor
