Comments by "User 2C47" (@user2C47) on "Munro Live" channel.

@davidhumeston5292 The F150 is a well known and proven design. If you try to make a unibody F150 (which would be required if you want a structural battery), customers will be angry because it's not an actual F150.
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@RobertLBarnard Tesla doesn't need to spend engineering time on designed obselescence because they can just arbitrarily disable your car after so many years. (Or whenever they want to)
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Might be good for parking in tight spaces.
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I would still buy a Tesla, but only if it is or can be fully jailbroken. I don't really care about the latest updates for a software package that would be taken away anyway because the license is per-user instead of the more logical (but less profitable) per-machine.
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I follow the Edison Motors channel (and many of the people here should too) and I'm here, so the answer is at least one.
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Is this a memory location?
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@danielroden9424 The problem with this is that the gearbox isn't really backdrivable.
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@don2deliver Because with an ICE, the only way to power it is with oil. An electric vehicle will run on any power you can generate. It could be from coal, but it could also be from nuclear, hydro, or even solar.
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Agreed. I was about to comment that they were looking at a very early and therefore more primitive design compared to the Y.
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@phamnuwen9442 Stamping a cube out of sheet metal would actually end up with a T or † shape cut out of a rectangle. The most efficient car would be one that is flat.
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The parts are probably mostly backward compatible unless the design changes completely.
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You don't even have to remove the door. Just unplug the window switch.
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Yes. On the Explorer, the power for all the windows runs through the window lock switch on the driver door. Fortunately, the connector for the window motor is right behind the door panel and easy to stick wires into and operate manually with a portable power source.
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The problem here is that FSD will be very expensive, and will likely require a subscription in the future. Also, a perpetual license (which may be more than $100,000 for Live) does not transfer to the new owner when the car is sold. This means that for the most part, only wealthy corporations with very particular needs are going to have access to Autopilot, while normal people will just have a normal cruise control.
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It really depends on what you're using it for. 48 volts is great for high power equipment, but no good if your equipment is mostly logic circuits, where 5 volts would be better.
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But that also means it has zero serviceability.
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Is this with Sentry Mode turned on? That will use a lot of power because the main computer and the cameras must remain fully active. It's like leaving a PC running Chrome and mining coins in the background compared to putting it in sleep mode. This may also make the coolant pump need to run, using more power.
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Or because the main window controller has traditionally been in the driver door.
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Wouldn't something that's essentially a servo controller be expected to just fail outright rather than spit out valid but incorrect data? For example: In an old 70s CPU core from an ESS, such a bit flip condition is possible: {[a=4],[a=4],[a=12]}. All are valid, but one is wrong. In the servo controller, it is more likely to look like this: {[drive:32,sense:32],[drive:32,sense:0]}. Module 2 fails sanity checks and throws a fault, failing over to module 1.
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Because it's easy. You could do it without a computer and devise a complicated system of unique multi-contact switches and relay logic, or you could simply write a few lines of code that do the job better, reducing cost and complexity, and possibly increasing reliability.
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Musk said in an interview that he wanted to move to something higher, like 48 volts, and that it took an embarrassingly long time to replace lead acid in the Model S. 12 volts is really only good for small loads like electronics.
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And this seems pointless. A 99 Ford that I scrapped had a similar plastic accelerator pedal.
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You must be thinking of Tesla. I don't see why Ford would have a reason to care. But I also don't see a reason Ford would do OTA updates.
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@shoal007 But the Y in this case is much newer than the 3, so the point is at least somewhat valid.
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What you said about redundancy is mostly true, except for steering, brakes, and airbags. These are safety critical and failure of any of these systems could lead to injury or death. For example, the service brake on a car is connected to the brake booster, but is fully capable of working without it, and there is sometimes even a cable-operated backup in case hydraulic pressure is lost. If all fails, there's still the parking brake. An air-driven parking brake has a spring that will cause it to apply if the brake hose loses pressure.
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It shouldn't be the government's job to help a specific product, except by possibly setting standards. That money could be better spent on actually maintaining roads.
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Which could be one of multiple.
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Are you guys at F**d still using relay logic and overcomplicated switches? The most recent one I've been able to look at is a '99. The turn signal switch was one of the most complicated switches I've ever seen, where it really only needed 2 poles.
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@robertbowman9108 With Cybertruck, the design is a lot harder. Firstly, it's a luxury passenger car and thus the design is a lot more complicated, but you also have crash safety, compliance, etc, and on top of that, you need to design the machine, design the machine that builds the machine, and design a machine to be built by machines.
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@solarissv777 This truck is not a passenger vehicle. It's a piece of heavy logging machinery. Its approach to crash safety is to be big, heavy, and unbreakable.
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@solarissv777 What you said is true, but primarily applies to cars. This is more comparable to a tractor or a mining truck than most road vehicles. It has to be able to handle very rough conditions without breaking, and crumple zones cannot do that. When driving a vehicle like this one or others like it, you just have to hope that you don't hit an immovable wall at speed.
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Since the steering controller is more of a power driver than a computer, wouldn't it more likely for one half to simply stop working and become completely unresponsive, than to spit out garbage or make a wrong decision?
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I definitely would NOT drive a car that doesn't have a mechanical backup for the brakes, or at least a mechanical parking brake. The car I use now not only has hydraulic brakes, but it also has a cable running directly between the brake pedal and the brakes. The same applies to steering.
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@Resist4 Many people seem to use "timing belt" as a term that describes any toothed belt.
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@codyluka8355 Unless the water is causing a power driver to run in a way it shouldn't, like turning on both sides of an H bridge, it's not going to be able to short out that much power. It's just going to use a lot of power and get hot. High impedance logic circuits, however, are a completely different story, and probably aren't meant to handle less than 100Ω straight to the traction battery.
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Even if you have brake by wire, you still need a backup (like a handbrake or spring brakes) that works without power.
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