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45 minutes ago, rperez817 said:
IIHS' long-term study of a 5 mph increase in speed limits found increases in fatality rates both on freeways and other types of roads. As a corollary to that, driving 5-10 mph over the limit is anything but "perfectly safe". Speed (iihs.org)
It would be interesting to see what the corollary is between an increase in a speed limit and the increase in the actual speed. For instance, increasing an Interstate speed limit from 70mph to 75, whereas the actual average speed was 77mph, does the average stay the same or go up by 8-10mph? Part of the problem as I see it, is that while speed increases, by and large following distances don't correspond very well.
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19 minutes ago, rperez817 said:
That's correct, urban transportation design and planning in 20th century and into the 21st deliberately favored automobiles, thereby endangering other street users especially pedestrians. In fact, jaywalking regulations specifically were introduced in the U.S. nearly a century ago at the behest of the automotive industry, as California Assemblyman Phil Ting described.
Many locales have adopted a "complete streets" design philosophy that does a much better job accounting for street users who are not in cars and trucks, resulting in a dramatic reduction of pedestrian injuries and fatalities. Below is a simple example in Seattle (Rainier Avenue).
Yes, that's one of the chief advantages of autonomous vehicles. Partners for Automated Vehicle Education (Ford Motor Company is a member of that organization) had a panel discussion a few weeks ago on how "advanced vehicle technologies" including ADAS and AV can improve pedestrian safety. PAVE Virtual Panel: “How Advanced Vehicle Technologies Can Improve Pedestrian Safety” – Full Recording | PAVE Campaign
Very well said GearheadGrrrl. The IIHS research paper referenced in the original post mentioned several of the more recent studies in that regard. The association between passenger-vehicle front-end profiles and pedestrian injury severity in motor vehicle crashes (iihs.org)
A pedestrian is less likely to be injured or killed by a Super Duty if crossing at a crosswalk, than one a jaywalking or crossing against a traffic signal by a Ford GT.
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11 hours ago, rperez817 said:
Hit and run involving a pedestrian is always the driver's fault.
10-4. It's the "and run" that puts you at fault, regardless of what the pedestrian did or didn't do.
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18 minutes ago, silvrsvt said:
So basically the IIHS is now going to dictate how vehicles need to be styled
The article didn't state how many pedestrian fatalities were Jaywalking, or how many crossed against a light. People are pretty good about yielding to pedestrians, in general. If you are crossing a road at a crosswalk you are a pedestrian with the right of way. Anywhere else and you are a target.
In the 19th century, the railroads came up with a solution for dumb animals that interfered with their right of way:
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Prescott, WI/Hastings, MN- 25mi SE of St Paul, MN. The .1¢ rounds up on my app The Independent is our local IGA Grocer. If you buy enough groceries you get a 10-25¢ discount off of the pump price::
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Maybe Ford should start naming eSUVs after shopping malls, the MOA, Somerset Collection, Ridgemar etc. Badge engineered for each region. More identifiable than resurrected names from the past. I mean how relevant is an island in the Sea of Naples?
Ford has also copyrighted "Skyline" for the North American market. Can't wait.
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9 hours ago, DeluxeStang said:
As for names, again, I just don't get it. Why Ford keeps putting sport car names on SUVs blows my mind. It would still piss a lot of people off, but Galaxie sounds like a perfect name to put on a new performance EV. It sounds futuristic, it's not going to upset as many people as calling a crossover a mustang. But they keep picking these names that your average consumer won't really remember, like Capri, but that will piss off the hardcore enthusiasts, who are the only people who really know what a Capri is
The Capri originally was a Lincoln model from 1952-59. The Capri was the top trim and later moved to the standard trim as the Premier and Continental were introduced. The one folks like to remember was the Cortina-based 1970-77 Mercury Capri, which was a really solid car and gave Americans a taste of what was lacking in the US Ford Maverick. Last one was the 1989-93 Australian built Mercury Capri two seater, which was a forgettable car and soon was. I had a '90 for a time as a demo while selling at an F-L-M store. Cute, but underpowered.
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https://fordauthority.com/2023/11/president-biden-says-all-autoworkers-should-be-unionized/
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that currently, foreign manufacturers are exporting a lot of autos from their US plants. What happens if they unionize and can no longer compete off shore? Do they move home? It seems to me that domestic unionized automakers make the bulk of their profits from large ICE vehicles, vehicles which are not sold or manufactured here by foreign transplants in any scale.
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7 hours ago, silvrsvt said:
Duh yeah I got Subaru and Hyundai mixed up ?
Hyundai's first pickup was a derivative of their Pony car, not sold in this country- chicken tax and all. We were blessed with the Dodge Rampage/Plymouth Scamp
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44 minutes ago, GearheadGrrrl said:
As for the economics, having lived within my means with 40+ MPG cars I'm now comfortably retired and could buy an F150 or three cash, but why waste my garage on three trucks when I can fit four sports cars!
You fergot motorcycles...
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22 minutes ago, jpd80 said:
And how many of those workers will be willing to relocate to BOC, that will be interesting to see versus say, how many take redundancy.
AFIK, the USPS has national seniority. You can bid on a position in any zip code that is open and can bump a person with less seniority who is also applying for it. I don't know how it works in the UAW, but when Teamster-represented Whirlpool Corp. left Minnesota in 1984 and moved freezer operations to Michigan and Floor Care to Danville, KY we could've moved at our own expense, but retain no seniority; start over as a new guy. I got into car sales shortly after and they closed Danville in 1990.
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2 hours ago, Bob Rosadini said:
Good point but I don't think ICE production will be ARTIFICIALLY extended, I just think the market will extend it because that is what the market will dictate. I believe many people recognize the false economy that is being used to sell electrification. To say nothing of our tax dollars paying for it.
2 hours ago, akirby said:
I don’t see it that way over the next 4 years. I don’t see them closing any plants and if they did they would most likely convert it to BEV like Oakville.I'll attempt to qualify my point.
The RTS over plant closings is now in the agreement permanently, I don't see it ever coming out in future agreements. Ford and all manufacturers with a BEV iron in the fire are ok for now in this market, as the BEV market stagnates. But sooner or later Blue Oval City will have to be brought on line probably remaining at breakeven capacity for a longer time or mothballed, as the older, less efficient plants must be kept open converted or not.
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The right to strike over plant closings ensures that the manufacture of more labor-intensive ICE vehicle production is artificially extended, and will hobble Detroit 3's ability to build competitive BEVS, irrespective of prevailing demand. Much the same as the railroad unions demanded firemen on locomotives for some 50 years after the conversion to diesel electric was initialized.
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2 hours ago, ice-capades said:
Unfortunately, Ford missed its opportunity to compete with Subaru decades ago with Subaru firmly embedded as an attractive, lower cost AWD alternative that has seen substantial growth over the years in selected regions such as New England where a lower cost AWD is very attractive.
Ford phoned it in with the '87-91 Tempo/Topaz AWD. A part time awd, no center diff, and engaged by a rocker switch on the ceiling (?)
Oddly, it never took off...
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Maybe it's Dodge Magnum Syndrome. When the Magnum came out, It was a cool idea; sort of a reborn Chevy Nomad; a slinky wagon with a big motor, and sales started rocketing up double digit, over 50,000 units in 2005 its first full year. Pretty good for a niche vehicle. In 2008, sales had dropped to under 7,000, an SRT-8 version was introduced, and Chrysler cancelled the whole car almost simultaneously, It seems that everybody that wanted one bought one the first two years.
Now we're seeing price drops, inventory piling up and dealers not filling allocation in the BEV space. Does everybody that wants one have one, at least for now?
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I always thought the GM Volt design was the most practical. Like a diesel-electric locomotive, the ICE engine only turns a generator which supplies power to the electric motor and a short range battery. An Atkinson ICE and a 50-75 mile range on battery alone, with the ability to charge while driving or via the grid would be practical and economical for many. The 100% BEV strategy may turn out to be the 21st century version of AM stereo.
It's a chicken & egg situation. BEV demand will increase as charging becomes faster and widely available; charging will become widely available when BEV demand increases.
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24 minutes ago, akirby said:
Jack of all trades, master of none comes to mind. Not enough utility for edge fans and too high for fusion fans.
Early feedback from Edge owners is pretty bad.
Sport Unusable Vehicle.
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10 hours ago, silvrsvt said:
SN95 vs New Edge?
The Probe turned into this:
Brings back memories. I had a '99 like this. surprisingly, it was a brute on snowy roads. Second childhood car, but like the Contour and Tracer, had the fuel vent problems. Traded down (up?) for a Y2k Focus wagon rental return.
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11 hours ago, DeluxeStang said:
I've seen people on this Ford obsessed site say they won't buy it because it's made in China. If Ford fans are turned off by that, it stands to reason mainstream consumers will be as well if they learn that.
9 hours ago, HotRunrGuy said:Heck, look at how the made in China Buick Envision far outsells the made in Kentucky USA Lincoln Corsair,,,,
HRG
It doesn't seem to bother Buick buyers. For the 2024 model year, all Buicks come from China including now the Enclave and the Encore and of course the Envista which replaces the outgoing Envision. Buick buyers are either ambivalent or clueless, as I expect a sizable portion of the market are.
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18 hours ago, rmc523 said:
I'm going to coin a new auto segment.....
the Cedan - a crossover sedan sort of like that new Crown, where it's more of a sedan body but sitting up higher.
17 hours ago, akirby said:Wasn’t that what Ford called Active?
>>>And Honda Called Crosstour? BMW X4?
Blecch.
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24 minutes ago, rperez817 said:
A tiny sliver of that customer base consists of Ford "sheeple" customers who would pay top dollar just to have a sedan with the Blue Oval on it, but the vast majority are those who bought a new Ford sedan for the deal, not because the product was a sedan or a Ford.
If such customers are worth keeping in the Ford "family", Ford can direct them to certified pre-owned cars at Ford dealerships, for example via the Blue Advantage program. Shop Ford Blue Advantage Certified Used Vehicles
That sounds overly simplistic to me. I've been out of the car biz for nearly thirty years now,; mostly Ford but a GM P-O-C and a Mopar 6-pack as well. And it was nearly impossible to put a customer in a low-milage rental/lease return/repo even if it was nicer equipped for the same or less money than a new one that we didn't have or couldn't dealer trade for. The marketplace may be more homogenized nowadays; fewer "Ford guys vs Chevy guys" outside of trucks. But if a Ford sedan debuted, I believe a good number of Camry and Sonata buyers would come back, and if done right, conquest sales.
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33 minutes ago, ice-capades said:
The following article was published in today's Las Vegas Review-Journal and is provided for informational purposes only.
COMMENTARY: Will UAW Rank-and-File Tolerate Their Leader's Extremism?
Las Vegas Review-Journal_2023-10-18_Will UAW Rank-and-File Tolerate Leader's Extremism.pdf
Alarming.
UAW Members, Please understand that even if you settle, keeping Fain in any role could have a negative effect in the marketplace.
People may begin to question how many of the UAW leadership and membership and what proportion of your dues may be supporting terrorist-think agendas, real or imagined, and buy a foreign nameplate? Maybe it's time to decertify the UAW and form guild or new union that has its members' workplace interests exclusively, and if some members are radical left in their individual beliefs, then so be it.
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On 10/5/2023 at 8:23 PM, Boss Hog said:
Only thing I dislike is in cold temperatures, remote starting to warm up, the diesel fumes are pretty bad inside the cab. I only notice it during winter months
Just now read your post, but is the HVAC preset to Recirc, i.e., Last Used Setting, for remote start? Max A/C or Max Defrost default to recirculating the interior air and could be causing exhaust to be entering the cabin. Other modes bring in fresh air and create positive air pressure in the cabin, which makes it harder for fumes to enter. There are two settings for the HVAC system in the Remote Start menu. Check that it is set to AUTO, or that the HVAC system is not in Max A/C or Max Defrost if using Last Used Setting.
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021C concept would make a good e-commuter car. Maybe stretch it a little to C2 size:
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IIHS Sharply Criticizes Automakers over Front-End Designs in New Report
in Ford Motor Company Discussion Forum
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If you frequently walk in high traffic areas...