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Ford F-150 Lightning: Fast Truck, Slow Computer

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Re: Ford F-150 Lightning: Fast Truck, Slow Computer

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Post by LAC-Tech »

alephxyz wrote: post #211
LAC-Tech wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> People like sitting higher up, or do not like being seated lower, or so much lower, than others. Most of my driving is on country roads in a mountainous area, with some very tight turns. I'm going to rent out an SUV soon and see what it's like taking sharp turns with a high vehicle. I suspect it sucks but who knows.

It sucks and it's more vulnerable to rollovers : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIN8CyhYREM

I'm very jealous of the US car market where there's a lot of AWD sedan options.

Here in NZ we have the Camary, Mazda 6, Lexus IS etc but none of them are available in AWD. Only crossovers, SUVs and Utes (small pick up trucks).

I've actually been toying with the idea of getting a Subaru WRX. I'm not a a boyracer or anything, but it's about the only japanese, AWD sedan available here. Feels like a weirdly practical choice (good cornering, better handling in ice/heavy rain/gravel).

EDIT: wow even modern Rav4s fail the moose test - a car which I'd call pretty mild for an SUV, even wagon like.

Re: Ford F-150 Lightning: Fast Truck, Slow Computer

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Post by denkmoon »

cmrdporcupine wrote: post #182
Dig1t wrote: post #177

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I completely agree with your conclusion, this is why I feel that European tech companies can't compete with US ones at all. They just refuse to pay enough to attract the best engineers.

Well here's a North American company clearly not willing to pay competitive software engineering rates even within the continent, and trying to take advantage of sub-regional low rates. Like, they're not in Toronto, but just west of it, and companies there are paying less, so, hey, they should pay less, too, right? You get what you pay for. This is what happens when HR drones are allowed to do naive "compensation ran…

>Companies like this will be in real trouble if remote work continues to be a thing. They better hope it doesn't.

Would be much healthier for humanity overall if these poorly managed companies, you know, just died from their poor management.

Re: Ford F-150 Lightning: Fast Truck, Slow Computer

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Post by bluGill »

elzbardico wrote: post #91
genocidicbunny wrote: post #60

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> Turing the wheel unpredictably selects objects on the screen, forcing you to keep your eyes off the road while you keep turning the wheel until the item you need is selected. You shouldn't need to do anything requiring the wheel while you're driving though. All the controls that you would want to have accessible while you're driving are physical (climate control, basic media/phone controls.) For everything else you…

Usually me an my wife take turns driving. And we have a tacit agreement that the passenger control this kind of stuff. So, if I am driving, I ask my wife to set a destination on the GPS, play some music, change the temperature, and when she is driving I become the navigator/flight-engineer. Having those controls in the wheel would be incredibly annoying for us.

The controls should not be visible to the driver. Move that touch screen over to the navigators seat and make it nice and convient for them to use. A little angle to the driver can't see it at all would be good.

The driver should have limited controls, all physical, and all ergonomicly designed to be easy to find. Even programming your phone GPS while moving should require the navigator to hit accept.

Screens for the driver should be carefully designed to not be something you look at while moving.

Re: Ford F-150 Lightning: Fast Truck, Slow Computer

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Post by boc »

mint2 wrote: post #10
Rooster61 wrote: post #7

It's incredibly frustrating to me that buying a vehicle with a pushbutton, working, reliable interface is becoming increasingly impossible to do. Why is UX so horrifically bad in the vehicle space? Is it poor management decisions or a shortage of good UX engineers? I get that lumping everything into the touchscreen can be a cheaper option to build, but I'd GLADLY pay for a different option. I don't understand it.

Cars seating is horrible and bad for backs. Trends, tradition and short term cost decide most design considerations not practicality or what’s best.

I wouldn't say this is universally true. Lexus and Volvo tend to make amazing car seats. I say this after driving 2000 miles last week and not feeling a thing in my old Lexus GX.

Re: Ford F-150 Lightning: Fast Truck, Slow Computer

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Post by cmrdporcupine »

denkmoon wrote: post #222
cmrdporcupine wrote: post #182

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well here's a North American company clearly not willing to pay competitive software engineering rates even within the continent, and trying to take advantage of sub-regional low rates. Like, they're not in Toronto, but just west of it, and companies there are paying less, so, hey, they should pay less, too, right? You get what you pay for. This is what happens when HR drones are allowed to do naive "compensation ran…

>Companies like this will be in real trouble if remote work continues to be a thing. They better hope it doesn't. Would be much healthier for humanity overall if these poorly managed companies, you know, just died from their poor management.

Or at least outsourced the software engineering to companies that would do a proper job of it.

Re: Ford F-150 Lightning: Fast Truck, Slow Computer

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Post by TylerE »

GoOnThenDoTell wrote: post #208
qbrass wrote: post #59

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Hope it's not a new Golf. VW did more damage to their reputation with that interior than from Dieselgate.

What happened to thr interior?

Nothing good. Climate control/radio buttons are gone. Materials are generally cheaper, like on the previous generation (US) Jetta.

Re: Ford F-150 Lightning: Fast Truck, Slow Computer

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Post by greesil »

boc wrote: post #218
sleepydog wrote: post #203

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Are there any professions in European countries that are paid as well as US tech workers, for similar levels of skill and/or education? Moreover, if EU tech companies are not willing to pay the best software/hardware engineers what they're worth, where do they all go? Not everyone wants to live in the US or work remotely.

Despite the general online sentiment, it's important to realize that the average American makes an absurd amount of money compared to their global peers. Even adjusting for PPP and other factors, average disposable household income for the US - a nation of 340M people - blows the doors off Luxembourg, Switzerland, Norway, etc. [1]. What's more though, median disposable income per capita ALSO places the US at the very…

And yet, I can't afford a house. I guess I'll go buy another Tesla.

Re: Ford F-150 Lightning: Fast Truck, Slow Computer

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Post by rascul »

namecheapTA wrote: post #107
twobitshifter wrote: post #93

With the performance of this and other EVs now beating the Raptor pickup, do you think we’ll start to see performance regulated for safety reasons? A massive pickup able to 0-60 in a few seconds is cool, but in the hands of the less responsible it sounds like a huge safety risk. We cap the performance of tiny scooters but multiton trucks are able to go as fast as humanly possible?

Atleast when a Dodge Charger is charging up from behind, I can hear the thing. Pedestrians can hear the thing. When the demographic that currently commits most reckless driving eventually adopts electric cars, it's going to be a blood bath.

> Atleast when a Dodge Charger is charging up from behind, I can hear the thing.

Do you mean while driving? How does that work? Even with my windows open I can't hear vehicles until they're at least next to me. I don't have a loud vehicle and hearing tests show I have good hearing.

Re: Ford F-150 Lightning: Fast Truck, Slow Computer

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Post by userbinator »

namecheapTA wrote: post #107
twobitshifter wrote: post #93

With the performance of this and other EVs now beating the Raptor pickup, do you think we’ll start to see performance regulated for safety reasons? A massive pickup able to 0-60 in a few seconds is cool, but in the hands of the less responsible it sounds like a huge safety risk. We cap the performance of tiny scooters but multiton trucks are able to go as fast as humanly possible?

Atleast when a Dodge Charger is charging up from behind, I can hear the thing. Pedestrians can hear the thing. When the demographic that currently commits most reckless driving eventually adopts electric cars, it's going to be a blood bath.

I was recently driven by someone in an EV in a busy parking lot and the amount of pedestrians that were entirely not aware of our presence as we slowly creeped up behind them was disturbing. Some even had to be horned. Ten or twenty years ago, people would notice you approaching just from the engine sound and naturally move aside or at least turn around and look.

The fact that the artificial sounds some of them have are not all that different from the sound of the wind doesn't help either.

Re: Ford F-150 Lightning: Fast Truck, Slow Computer

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Post by systemvoltage »

megablast wrote: post #186
Dig1t wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I completely agree with your conclusion, this is why I feel that European tech companies can't compete with US ones at all. They just refuse to pay enough to attract the best engineers.

What a strange comment. Ford is a us tech company. Most people in Europe don’t want to leave.

I worked in a tech company in US and it was full of PhDs from Europe. I'd say as much as 30% PhDs were Europeans.
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