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  1. TaconicBear

    Audible pedestrian warning noise

    Actually, I see this as an equally shared responsibility. Distracted, oblivious, and <whatever attribute>, can be equally ascribed to both drivers and pedestrians (and cyclists, and skateboarders, etc.). Everyone has a pretty much equal responsibility to be aware of their surroundings and safe...
  2. TaconicBear

    Dealerships Are Dying

    How I wish!!! I'm worried about this discussion largely because it is between US -- people who have owned Scouts, worked on cars, have woodworking hobbies, etc. But ask my teacher and professor friends, and I hear too many stories of students who have never held a hand tool, whose skills all...
  3. TaconicBear

    What kind of tech do you expect enabled in the car or interface?

    And UP, for when it starts raining and you're in the 3rd floor looking down. Tundra has it, but it is on the aux key that's part of the fob, so you have to free it from the fob and stick it in the one key slot (drivers door) and stand in the rain while all the windows (except the pickup rear)...
  4. TaconicBear

    Moab Road Trip Inspiration

    In the console my Toyotas have three small spring loaded tabs which adjust to the size of the container, elsewhere it is one size fits most.
  5. TaconicBear

    Audible pedestrian warning noise

    I have specifically asked for that cutout button. It should be easy to program the Scout's computer to reactivate the sound after a given time, or when the mode of driving changes - like when it shifts up from first gear when crawling in a parade or in a wildlife refuge.
  6. TaconicBear

    Dealerships Are Dying

    I suppose that it would come down to some grand database accessible to owners and techs. But I really like a printed manual while in repair mode. Having to deal with a laptop/tablet screen in the driveway, or a computer that keeps popping up irrelevant messages, or shutting down to save...
  7. TaconicBear

    Dealerships Are Dying

    Now that we have been told at the Reveal that most of the EV Scouts' parts will be owner serviceable in their own driveway, it would seem to follow that each one will come with it's own copy of a service manual and a parts book. Those two publications are a constant in the life of my legacy...
  8. TaconicBear

    What kind of tech do you expect enabled in the car or interface?

    On the Tundras that offered the dash-cam as an option but did not receive one, folks who were installing an aftermarket cam found that the wiring was all there in the housing designed to hold the OEM item. Apparently it wasn't worth it for Toyota to have two different cables to service that...
  9. TaconicBear

    What kind of tech do you expect enabled in the car or interface?

    I stand enlightened. Sounds like you are reporting from Buffalo or Lowville. Fortunately I live several hours east of there and have had only one experience with the lake-effect snows downwind from Erie and Ontario. That was a harrowing drive from Watertown to Syracuse which was a complete...
  10. TaconicBear

    What kind of tech do you expect enabled in the car or interface?

    I sure agree with you on the frozen headlights. A couple of manufacturers are placing heating heating elements in the glass or housing. At least one has tiny wipers, and BMW floods them with wiper fluid. The issue isn't limited to the headlights, but to all lights, cameras, and sensors...
  11. TaconicBear

    What kind of tech do you expect enabled in the car or interface?

    40-20-40 means you always have to have a child in the middle, right? Maybe 35-30-35 or better yet 33x3? And I'd apply that to both front and rear seats.
  12. TaconicBear

    What kind of tech do you expect enabled in the car or interface?

    Having lived 82 of my 84 years in the north (aka snow country) I have never seen snow accumulation on the hood or top of a moving vehicle be a problem. Of course it accumulates whilst parked, but common sense (and laws and regulations) would have us remove any obstructive accumulations before...
  13. TaconicBear

    What kind of tech do you expect enabled in the car or interface?

    The 7-pin trailer wiring plus brake controller is a must, not just in upscale packages. The towing capacities invite larger loads which mean heavier and longer trailers (like flat towing or trailering our legacy Scouts). Safety requires brakes on the trailer that respond to the towing...
  14. TaconicBear

    What kind of tech do you expect enabled in the car or interface?

    Your use of the term "trailcams" kinda threw me for a bit. That's a whole class of cameras that hunters and wildlife researchers hang in the woods to spy on our wild neighbors. Wasn't sure why you'd want them mounted on your Scout. I guess some serious rock-crawlers like cameras mounted in...
  15. TaconicBear

    What kind of tech do you expect enabled in the car or interface?

    If the EV Scout is to ultimately be a utility vehicle then I cannot see many of those items. Yes I know SM will have to sell a lot to the mass market Sport (aka daily driver) crowd, so those perks seem necessary. I hope we eventually get a model close to the bare bones Scout 80s that I love...
  16. TaconicBear

    What kind of tech do you expect enabled in the car or interface?

    Ford reportedly is dropping the feature based on automated feedback that tells them no one is using it.
  17. TaconicBear

    Should Scout adopt the NACS (Tesla) charging system

    I agree wholeheartedly, why not just open it with the flick of a finger like most of my other vehicles do? KISS, even a spring latch gets cranky when filled with dusty dirt. OTOH, perhaps SM made it motorized as a security measure, perhaps to prevent pilfering of power?
  18. TaconicBear

    Scout Color Poll #1

    That dark brown with golden metallic flecks was around for Toyota's Tundra in very limited numbers in 2023, I have also caught it on a couple of other models. Toyota called it mesquite; I agree, it is stunning.
  19. TaconicBear

    Scout Color Poll #1

    Scheduling the reveal at the photographer's golden hour with the sun behind the subjects was a stroke of "<fill in the blank>". Then shifting to what surely were lED floods and spots with their wonky colour spectrums leaves valuations of the colours nuanced at best. In looking at all the...
  20. TaconicBear

    Crawl

    Well, actually I've done that repeatedly. Not on sketchy trails but my own driveway. It is 1200ft long running up a mountainside and has 10% grades plus turns. Back in the 60s and 70s before we had the $$ to get it paved it was a constant battle with washouts vs. rake and shovel work to...
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