ice-capades Posted November 15, 2023 Share Posted November 15, 2023 (edited) Ford Introducing In-Vehicle Customer Feedback Tool Ford said its engineers receive the comments that people share through the feature https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/ford-introducing-in-vehicle-customer-feedback-tool Ford is bringing a new feature to its vehicles that enables customers to give instantaneous feedback to the Michigan-based automaker. The company added the feature, dubbed "Record Feedback," to roughly 300,000 vehicles so far. Vehicles in the U.S. that already have it include select model years of the 2021-2023 Mustang Mach-E, 2022-2023 F-150 Lightning, 2022-2024 Expedition, 2021-2024 Edge and 2024 Navigator, Ford said. When activated, it works by recording and relaying whatever feedback a customer has chosen to express verbally to Ford while also pulling certain vehicle-related data, the company said. Owners can initiate it via a button on the onboard screen in the car. Ford has plans for further expansion of "Record Feedback" next year. People with 2023 vehicles, spanning 11 Ford and Lincoln lines and many 2024 model year cars coming off the factory lines, will start having the technology incorporated then, the company said. The company said "Record Feedback" has already come in handy for solving an issue experienced by a Ford owner. Commentary from a user and accompanying data contributed to Ford quickly fixing an update-related glitch that had "caused Apple phones to disconnect the pairing list" for accessing a car via mobile phone. Edited November 15, 2023 by ice-capades Additional Content Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmc523 Posted November 15, 2023 Share Posted November 15, 2023 this can be a good idea, but I'm sure folks will be like "I want the cupholder 3" to the left". 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh Posted November 15, 2023 Share Posted November 15, 2023 (edited) 47 minutes ago, rmc523 said: this can be a good idea, but I'm sure folks will be like "I want the cupholder 3" to the left". Nailed it. It looks like anyone with Sync 4 and up. I'll look for that feature in the updates. Edited November 15, 2023 by Hugh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmc523 Posted November 15, 2023 Share Posted November 15, 2023 1 hour ago, Hugh said: Nailed it. It looks like anyone with Sync 4 and up. I'll look for that feature in the updates. Conversely - it can be a good tool if folks say "feature X is buried in too many sub-menus" and they get a few thousand of the same thing so they change it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh Posted November 15, 2023 Share Posted November 15, 2023 26 minutes ago, rmc523 said: Conversely - it can be a good tool if folks say "feature X is buried in too many sub-menus" and they get a few thousand of the same thing so they change it. That's what I was thinking. That makes sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akirby Posted November 15, 2023 Share Posted November 15, 2023 As a developer I always liked getting feedback from users. Doesn’t mean you have to do anything with it but sometimes you get a good suggestion. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh Posted November 15, 2023 Share Posted November 15, 2023 23 minutes ago, akirby said: As a developer I always liked getting feedback from users. Doesn’t mean you have to do anything with it but sometimes you get a good suggestion. ^ this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeluxeStang Posted November 15, 2023 Share Posted November 15, 2023 I think this is a great idea, and could massively improve the quality of several Ford products. If I was experiencing some sort of issue, I'd much rather converse directly with the engineer who created the thing. Rather than some P.R. representative. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deanh Posted November 15, 2023 Share Posted November 15, 2023 I sincerely question utilizing the word "instantaneous" in the literature....not going to happen.....you get 50 people at once all inputting their ideas for improvement, then what...uou got 50 live people at the other end?... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ice-capades Posted November 15, 2023 Author Share Posted November 15, 2023 16 minutes ago, Deanh said: I sincerely question utilizing the word "instantaneous" in the literature....not going to happen.....you get 50 people at once all inputting their ideas for improvement, then what...uou got 50 live people at the other end?... Okay... "instantaneous" is misleading. However, the feedback is not a live conversation, it's a feedback message the customer records that is submitted to Ford. When activated, it works by recording and relaying whatever feedback a customer has chosen to express verbally to Ford while also pulling certain vehicle-related data, the company said. Owners can initiate it via a button on the onboard screen in the car. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deanh Posted November 15, 2023 Share Posted November 15, 2023 29 minutes ago, ice-capades said: Okay... "instantaneous" is misleading. However, the feedback is not a live conversation, it's a feedback message the customer records that is submitted to Ford. When activated, it works by recording and relaying whatever feedback a customer has chosen to express verbally to Ford while also pulling certain vehicle-related data, the company said. Owners can initiate it via a button on the onboard screen in the car. lol..nothing like adding potentially even more driver distration......hopefully they will have to be parked.... 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurtisH Posted November 16, 2023 Share Posted November 16, 2023 5 hours ago, akirby said: As a developer I always liked getting feedback from users. Doesn’t mean you have to do anything with it but sometimes you get a good suggestion. I’ve had my fair share of “why didn’t I think of that” moments. Developers and end users can have very different perspectives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fordmantpw Posted November 16, 2023 Share Posted November 16, 2023 28 minutes ago, CurtisH said: I’ve had my fair share of “why didn’t I think of that” moments. Developers and end users can have very different perspectives. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fordmantpw Posted November 16, 2023 Share Posted November 16, 2023 Or another. She's the developer. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silvrsvt Posted November 16, 2023 Share Posted November 16, 2023 1 hour ago, CurtisH said: I’ve had my fair share of “why didn’t I think of that” moments. Developers and end users can have very different perspectives. Yeah or the end user just wants to do something the same way because they've always done that, when it just boils down to them putting a piece of paper in a filing cabinet that is never looked at again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akirby Posted November 16, 2023 Share Posted November 16, 2023 Early in my career we built a centralized database that gave a consolidated view of 300 local ticket databases. At any point in time there were a few thousand open tickets. We kept asking the users how they wanted to sort and filter the tickets and they just kept saying we want all of them. I showed them if we gave them one big list of tickets, 20 per page, it would take them an hour just to page through them all. Turns out they had no idea how they were going to manage these centralized tickets yet so they didn’t want to limit themselves. The result was unusable until they finally came up with filtering and sorting options. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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