1/2 Glasgow Council thinks it's good because it will close a limited number of city centre roads for 6 hours, whilst simultaneously allowing #Ford Motors to cover itself in a cloud of #greenwash
#Ford in order not to accidentally store images of passerby taken by vehicles decided the best way around it is to recognize their faces and store them with a unique ID unified among all vehicles which may have recorded the same person, is such way that if that person asks they'll be able to remove all images from their database.
It feels to me like the solution is worse than the original problem...
Every EV maker looked at the oh-so-sweet margins Tesla had, and all of them then decided to not only create "premium" EVs. but also price them with Tesla-like margins.
They forgot a simple thing: most people don't buy luxury cars.
They purchase vehicles that fit their wallets.
Now, the entire EV field is having a reset.
Worse even, offshore manufacturers with their lower production costs are at the door.
It was only May 23 that this deal was announced and less than a year later ford users have access to teslas supercharger network
The NACS standard is going to rapidly take over in CONUSA and this is a great thing for consumers, and wont be a problem for tesla owners, I'll follow up with why
@heinragas if I don't cover my Dodge windows, I can't drive that winter. Snow melts to the wiper blades, that tuck at hood level, below the heater direction, so that no matter how long the car runs and warms up, it can't defrost your wipers.
CEO whose total compensation dwarfs the median pay for his company's employees by a ratio of 281-to-1 whinges that the United Auto Workers union was really mean to him when they went on strike for better wages.
@Casey The Model T killed the BEV. ICE vehicles turned out to be cheaper to build and operate. The only thing Ford can do to repeat that is to make a zero emission ICE car that eliminates the need for BEVs.
Bear with us as we keep celebrating that our #browser is part of the new infotainment system in #Ford and #Lincoln cars: a big achievement for our company! 🎉
#Ford is recalling nearly 1.9 million Ford Explorer SUVs in the U.S. because of loose clips that could detach, allowing the windshield trim panels to fly off while the vehicle is traveling at highway speeds.
The ex- #Ford CEO says that there are more accidents because #EV brakes are better, and people behind them in #ICE cars crash into them - that's just bad driving. You should always leave enough room behind the car in front to stop safely.
Also, he says about households having 2 cars - one EV and one ICE getting used to EVs with reversing cameras and then swapping back to the ICE which doesn't.
That has nothing to do with how the car is powered. Loads of ICE cars have reversing cameras or "gadgets" - where's he been for the last 5 or so years?
The statistics might be right, but these are poor arguments.
@lewiscowles1986
We need to get away from fossil fuels, and yes, EV are not the panacea. For millions of years, most creatures have survived without loads of technological advancements, but without cheap cheap personal transport, humans would just be surviving, not thriving.
Whether that's a good thing for the earth as a whole is another matter though.
Although public transport should be supported/subsidised (which seems to work in Europe), that is not a panacea either.
I Agree transport is needed; I think where we differ is what we think the minimum is there.
Even if EV's were not total trash that degrades and locks users into expensive battery recycling, kids into slavery and non-child miners into wretched conditions.
I Genuinely hope for a future of tuk-tuks and similar smaller vehicles.
I am thrilled to tell you that @Vivaldi is now becoming available in cars from Ford and Lincoln!
The first one will be the 2024 Lincoln Nautilus.
We continue to lead the way in in-car browsing. Yes, there will be others, but we continue to lead and hopefully set the standard of what you expect from a browser in your car!
