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J Alynn said:
Starting to sound like the Nissan Murano. Some vehicles are iconic and should not venture too far. A topless G-wagon is in the right genre but just seems better as a solid box. But guess that is simply my perception
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dreamweaver said:
This seems promising.

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I hope they can get the costs down for commercialization. If they could drop these in shopping center parking lots and urban parking garages, this would enable charging for people who don’t have a home charger. I don’t mind the plugs I have today, but not everyone is so fortunate to have a place to plug in at home.
 
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cyure said:
OMG! So today Ford posted this…

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And then one of my favorite ex F1 drivers posted this…


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I’m so excited!!!
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Okay, racing is a part of the car geek realm I’ve never really gotten into, so please take my question as it’s meant: genuine curiosity. What’s exciting about this announcement? I gather there’s a famous racer who has joined Ford’s racing team? What else? That’s clearly a Ford Raptor in the photo, so I’m guessing this is a rally/Baja-style racing related announcement?

I’m not often excited about corporate rearrangements since in my direct experience it just means new management telling experienced people how to do jobs they’ve been doing for a long time. And the firing of a large part of the team. So that part had me skeptical of any improvements to Ford’s current capabilities or offerings.

But I just don’t know enough about the racing world in general. Thus my questions.
 
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SpaceEVDriver said:
Okay, racing is a part of the car geek realm I’ve never really gotten into, so please take my question as it’s meant: genuine curiosity. What’s exciting about this announcement? I gather there’s a famous racer who has joined Ford’s racing team? What else? That’s clearly a Ford Raptor in the photo, so I’m guessing this is a rally/Baja-style racing related announcement?

I’m not often excited about corporate rearrangements since in my direct experience it just means new management telling experienced people how to do jobs they’ve been doing for a long time. And the firing of a large part of the team. So that part had me skeptical of any improvements to Ford’s current capabilities or offerings.

But I just don’t know enough about the racing world in general. Thus my questions.
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Ha! Honestly it’s less the Ford part and more the Daniel Ricciardo part. He was an F1 driver. I have tried to get into Indy Car and NASCAR but I’m a F1 girl. He lost his seat a bit ago and there were rumors he might come back as one of the drivers for the new Cadillac team but he didn’t. I’m just glad to see him go somewhere. He just seems like a genuinely nice guy and he had a hand injury. When you are going to crash in F1 you take your hands off the wheel because when you crash if the wheel jerks it will break your hand. He didn’t do that. He was gonna crash and was headed for another crashed car and kept his hand on the wheel to steer and not hit them but broke his hand/wrist when the wheel jerked on impact. He never quite recovered after that and ended up losing his seat. So it’s the F1 fan girlie in me that’s excited to see him back in racing.
 
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cyure said:
Ha! Honestly it’s less the Ford part and more the Daniel Ricciardo part. He was an F1 driver. I have tried to get into Indy Car and NASCAR but I’m a F1 girl. He lost his seat a bit ago and there were rumors he might come back as one of the drivers for the new Cadillac team but he didn’t. I’m just glad to see him go somewhere. He just seems like a genuinely nice guy and he had a hand injury. When you are going to crash in F1 you take your hands off the wheel because when you crash if the wheel jerks it will break your hand. He didn’t do that. He was gonna crash and was headed for another crashed car and kept his hand on the wheel to steer and not hit them but broke his hand/wrist when the wheel jerked on impact. He never quite recovered after that and ended up losing his seat. So it’s the F1 fan girlie in me that’s excited to see him back in racing.
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Neat! Thanks for sharing! :)

When I was in grad school for geology-related work, I taught physics students how to off-road, and one of the things I had to drill into them was how to hold the steering wheel when doing more technical driving: no thumbs or fingers inside of the wheel unless you want to break them. For very similar reasons you mentioned. It’s easy to lose control of the steering wheel when there’s a direct connection between it and the tires. With drive-by-wire, you lose some of that direct connection, but also lose some of the dangers.
 
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Neat! Thanks for sharing! :)

When I was in grad school for geology-related work, I taught physics students how to off-road, and one of the things I had to drill into them was how to hold the steering wheel when doing more technical driving: no thumbs or fingers inside of the wheel unless you want to break them. For very similar reasons you mentioned. It’s easy to lose control of the steering wheel when there’s a direct connection between it and the tires. With drive-by-wire, you lose some of that direct connection, but also lose some of the dangers.
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Now are we for certain the Scout is going to be drive by wire? I keep seeing it mentioned but I wasn’t aware that was official.
 
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