Battery based electric vehicles of today and tomorrow.

[Fixastuff]

Roughly 38,000 people die a year in car accidents by human driven cars, robot cars don't really have high standards to "live" up to.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

I think it’s kinda sad if you are correct and the statistical majority wants autonomous driving.
Geeze, I thought it was sad that most kids today (and some adults) can’t drive a clutch

I don't know about a majority, but I'm a member of the Over The Hill Gang. My mom lived until 95, and had to give up driving at 90. The last 5 years of being a virtual prisoner in her own home was tough on her. Cabs and ride share don't run in the country, and the county ride program is limited to doctor's appointments and grocery shopping. An 8 mile drive to visit friends was on the kids, and who wants your kids hanging out when you are visiting friends?

I may be driving an 18 year old pickup, but I could write a check for a new one. I don't, because a new pickup wouldn't do anything my old one doesn't. If I live that long, I probably have 15 years before I can't drive any more. Us boomers are holding on to something like $70 trillion in savings. We may be frugal, but if we need something bad enough, we'll buy it. Car makers are drooling at the prospect of offering a new necessity, particularly because new car sales have driven off a cliff.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Yes there is a huge difference between self driving and full self driving. Tesla is the closest to FSD that I see today.

We have drivers today that did not learn how to drift on a gravel road.

We have drivers today that never learned a lead foot causes washboards.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

For sure. computers never fail.

Well at least not at the rate that humans fail. Not even talking FSD a Tesla that I might be driving running Auto Pilot is like 8 times less likely to be involved in an accident than when I am driving my F150.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

We have drivers today that never learned a lead foot causes washboards.

That is funny. I was living on a gravel road until October of 1997. They did a chipping seal and I still feel the washboard on a lot of the hills.

 

[3930dave]

Hah no it uses a front facing camera in the dashboard. Apparently it can tell when you close your eyes for a few seconds, or when resistance is taken off the steering wheel.

10-4.

Moving target as to who has the best system at a given time, but a friend of mine who was researching these a while ago commented that Cadillac had one of (if not the) best at that time.

But, Detroit has a hard time generating the media buzz the 'Valley does these days....

Rgds, D.

 

[sd455dan]

Update on the New Mach E that had some problems.

Seems the Youtube video and getting a better dealer really can make a difference.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

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I would have expected the battery to have a better cooling system so they can handle the heat of a fast charge.

 

[Whidbey]

I have a relative working as an intern this summer at GM's new EV startup factory.

 

[Whidbey]

I have a relative working as a mechanical engineering intern at GM's startup EV assembly plant in Detroit.