Comments by "" (@tomk3732) on "carwow" channel.

Yeah, that is not something you want in a work truck. Plus single point of failure - imagine smashing this delicate screen - and your whole truck is now towable. Not to mention 1000s in expenses to replace this. Not to mention it protrudes like it does.
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@thatchwhistle Yeah but voice commands are soooo slow. Menu navigation is also slow. Pressing a button is FAST.
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In Europe and Asia you have touch screen that goes across whole dash area from driver to passenger. Way more high tech. Way.
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On a farm land or in the forest this is one of the best cars to get - super cheap and very capable. I saw one in Ukraine painted all green with a kornet on top ready to blow up some Challenger 2 tanks. Cost of whole system with spare ammo is like under 50k USD.
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@ziplockk Not exactly true - it can simply turn on ABS and lock it - but since its not connected and is only breaking it cannot do much of any damage - it will simply stop your vehicle. Here you can tell the vehicle, at speed to turn off the road. Who did it? Well, driver was ... crazy... and just like that perfect murder.
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@ziplockk Yeah, too bad ABS controller does not usually have any public interface to play around with too much - for example, as per cool 101 page paper on hacking your car I found this: " Anti-locking Brake ECU can be accessed through HS-CAN bus. There is a diagnostic command to bleed brakes. When the command is issued, one cannot depress the brake pedal. Only catch is that the command can be issued only when the vehicle is moving at less than 5 mph." . In most cases this involves physical control of the vehicle, access the port & connecting laptop with software. Something every owner of European car knows due to the POS breaking all the time and needing to figure out yet again which one of the 40 or so modules it is.
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@ziplockk Yeah, at like 5mph. And I did my homework. Sure maybe some vehicles existed or exist that will allow other modes but I have found no such evidence. Even if breaks are disabled at 5mph someone with quick thinking can use parking break or if near curb steer into it. Bottom line, the more complex system the more avenues to attack. Now you have whole steering system +++ system to control rear wheels, 8 motors to play around with. All you need is a little remote device to send 48VDC into one of the motors in front wheels at special time to make vehicle crush into oncoming semi. Electric vehicle fire can destroy all evidence.
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Looks like Tesla paid commercial. I mean this guy lists almost exclusively good points - but there are dozens of problems with this thing.
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@rutwickgangurde3247 mirrors are actually fine for me - I rarely move mine around - mostly when they change due to snow clearing off them or ice. Also touch screen change of position for say 10 different drivers would be fine as well. However things such as rolling down of windows, power lock, light control etc. that are used all the time should be where they are in normal vehicles. This is why some guy made a panel with buttons under the screen for Tesla - but even that is not perfect. I also hate the protruding screen - it is soooo much better in F-150. Overall F-150 Lighting seems to be designed as a truck far more than this. Also F-150 is soooo much more practical in almost every respect.
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@GurpsCheema LOL!
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Not at all - the price for this is that any damage now is not really repairable. Any ding - and costs are in 1000s.
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Yeah instead you need to take care of SS which is like 10x harder. Good job.
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@pellemoe72 Kitchen is much easier - I do not drive my fridge in dirt, with rocks and stuff flying all over.
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@mosconi0359 LOL, you are not really knowing how we measure metals - we have tensile strength, we have hardness, ductility, and then we have some additional properties such as whatever alloy is magnetic, whatever it is weldable (and if not weldable with standard stuff what can be used), if it work hardens, machinability index, resistance to corrosion, strength loss due to heat, ability to heat treat, plastic deformation and I am sure many others. This is why we have 1000s of alloys. A lot. Most bodies of cars and trucks are made with high use of mild steel - which is usually something like 1018. BUT, many manufacturers started using different alloys - alloys that offer more tensile strength can be used in truck frame to simply make it lighter. Some parts of cars and trucks use a lot of composite materials to save on weight. As to your spaceship - if the goal was to make it stronger - which I am assuming tensile strength, then SS would not be used as there are far better alloys for this that are cheaper. Heck something like 4330 steel. Again, I am 99% sure SS was used for heat as other than Titanium (expensive) it is better than any other alloy at dealing with heat. Even high carbon mild steel is "stronger" then some of the strongest SS. SS is not very "strong" at all.
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