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Read this at a Tesla forum (posted by a Model 3 owner) and thought it was interesting insight:
I met a software designer for the Ford Mustang Mach-E. He lives in Redmond, WA but travels frequently to Detroit, MI. I won’t share his name unless he comes up on here.
Formerly of Microsoft, he was picked up by ford along with some other new talent to spearhead this endeavor.
The team owned Tesla model 3s for a year to “live the life” and feel/love/learn the Nuances that Tesla built into the software.
The interior engineer team lead also had a model 3 during design development and there were a few model 3s on each phase of testing, as I am sure will continue to be the case until final production configurations.
Ford having the model 3 allowed the team to see the direct competitor Y first hand at about 95% accuracy.
We talked about small things like adding new wheels/TPMS sensors with the Tesla asking which size wheels and running an auto calibration for Speedo and driving characteristics and I brought up the love of smaller things like pushing the center console lid too hard to close it and it brings up a message on screen to close it gently.
You could see and hear the passion for the project in him and he loved the Tesla.
They hadn’t been able to tell anybody what they were working on. Like a skunkworks project from Lockheed.
I am hoping that time with the Tesla will help steer some of the bugs we saw at launch still. Get away from the SYNC like crap user interface.
He is probably on here, as he has been on many forums, groups, and at Tesla meets. Most of the design team has been in the community to try and match to the culture and features.
I love my model 3; however, I believe we need ford to have success with this to push the industry further faster. I do wish that car luck. I will not likely be buying one in the future but maybe something else in the pipeline.
It is great to think monster ford has their ears to the grass roots of this and other communities to try and capture some of the Tesla magic.
I met a software designer for the Ford Mustang Mach-E. He lives in Redmond, WA but travels frequently to Detroit, MI. I won’t share his name unless he comes up on here.
Formerly of Microsoft, he was picked up by ford along with some other new talent to spearhead this endeavor.
The team owned Tesla model 3s for a year to “live the life” and feel/love/learn the Nuances that Tesla built into the software.
The interior engineer team lead also had a model 3 during design development and there were a few model 3s on each phase of testing, as I am sure will continue to be the case until final production configurations.
Ford having the model 3 allowed the team to see the direct competitor Y first hand at about 95% accuracy.
We talked about small things like adding new wheels/TPMS sensors with the Tesla asking which size wheels and running an auto calibration for Speedo and driving characteristics and I brought up the love of smaller things like pushing the center console lid too hard to close it and it brings up a message on screen to close it gently.
You could see and hear the passion for the project in him and he loved the Tesla.
They hadn’t been able to tell anybody what they were working on. Like a skunkworks project from Lockheed.
I am hoping that time with the Tesla will help steer some of the bugs we saw at launch still. Get away from the SYNC like crap user interface.
He is probably on here, as he has been on many forums, groups, and at Tesla meets. Most of the design team has been in the community to try and match to the culture and features.
I love my model 3; however, I believe we need ford to have success with this to push the industry further faster. I do wish that car luck. I will not likely be buying one in the future but maybe something else in the pipeline.
It is great to think monster ford has their ears to the grass roots of this and other communities to try and capture some of the Tesla magic.
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