mikeho
Well-Known Member
- First Name
- Mike
- Joined
- Jun 25, 2020
- Threads
- 10
- Messages
- 158
- Reaction score
- 134
- Location
- San Jose, CA
- Vehicles
- Mustang Mach-E
Well, the good thing about technology is that it's fixable without having to worry about the integrity of the car itself. As someone who works in tech, I can tell you that getting good test coverage for your software and getting enough live testers before launch is really, really difficult while you're under a crunch.
No one's tried to unify all the charging networks together under one authentication scheme and none of these charging networks have car-as-an-infrastructure (i.e. plug-and-charge) capabilities built-in, so they're building all of this from scratch as much as Ford is. With this many moving parts going on, things are sure to break.
My Chevy Bolt had a few software issues for the 3.5 years that I owned it, but from a software perspective, it was a pretty basic car with not much upgrade capabilities (no PaaK, no wireless Android Auto/CarPlay, no Co-Pilot 360 equivalent). With the new Bolt, I'm sure they'll have even more software issues coming up.
I'm just glad that most of the software that Ford is comfortable is working well. For example, the pre-collision assist is pretty spot on and the Co-Pilot 360 is pretty eerie (it's as close to self-driving as I've seen on the freeway, since the lane-keeping is pretty accurate). Not to mention all the electronics in the car seem to be mostly working well. I've had a few glitches where a modal, that should disappear after some time or by tapping outside of it, locked up the screen until I restarted the car.
No one's tried to unify all the charging networks together under one authentication scheme and none of these charging networks have car-as-an-infrastructure (i.e. plug-and-charge) capabilities built-in, so they're building all of this from scratch as much as Ford is. With this many moving parts going on, things are sure to break.
My Chevy Bolt had a few software issues for the 3.5 years that I owned it, but from a software perspective, it was a pretty basic car with not much upgrade capabilities (no PaaK, no wireless Android Auto/CarPlay, no Co-Pilot 360 equivalent). With the new Bolt, I'm sure they'll have even more software issues coming up.
I'm just glad that most of the software that Ford is comfortable is working well. For example, the pre-collision assist is pretty spot on and the Co-Pilot 360 is pretty eerie (it's as close to self-driving as I've seen on the freeway, since the lane-keeping is pretty accurate). Not to mention all the electronics in the car seem to be mostly working well. I've had a few glitches where a modal, that should disappear after some time or by tapping outside of it, locked up the screen until I restarted the car.
Sponsored