Why no Pet Mode yet?

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Our dogs aren't pets. They only enter a vehicle for vet trips. That said, I'd rather see programmable information projections on the windows to alert other drivers of low tires, fuel/charging flap open, etc. This would be practical.
 

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Like producing an electric car?
Modify that to mass-producing an electric car… They were hardly the first to produce, going all the way back to the early 1900s. Just a follower like everyone else, lol.

Now, if you want to talk about streamlining a horribly inefficient and bloated industry while making impressive margins, then yes awesome work. Making a soulless catfish of a car with impressive technology but that looks the same over a decade later, not so impressive.
 

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Well, Teslas were being sold for 7 years before Dog Mode was added. So if that’s your benchmark, we’ve still got 5 more years before it should be considered slow, right?
Is that is human years or Dog years?
 


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Do you have to turn off motion sensors too?
No, because motion sensors don't go off while you've got the car running, or you couldn't drive anywhere...
 

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We can’t even see what the interior temperature is from the app. Maybe we could start with that feature before we begin trusting pets’ lives to Ford’s notorious software.
 

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You get to make your own decisions about how safe it is to keep your beloved pet in a potentially very hot or very cold car. The guy who's been claiming full self driving for many years isn't a good model for officially claimed features in an EV.🐶
 

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Modify that to mass-producing an electric car… They were hardly the first to produce, going all the way back to the early 1900s. Just a follower like everyone else, lol.

Now, if you want to talk about streamlining a horribly inefficient and bloated industry while making impressive margins, then yes awesome work. Making a soulless catfish of a car with impressive technology but that looks the same over a decade later, not so impressive.
There will be more Model Ys sold in 2023 than F series trucks.... that seems fairly impressive for being soulless :)
 

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lol mmmkay the biggest component of pet mode is to put on the giant screen that the car is in a pet mode. So…… do gooders don’t smash your windows and call the S.W.A.T team while you’re running an errand. #ThisIsNotHard
Sketch App. Write your own message. Save it. Use it. Not hard at all.

Creating pet mode is a waste of resources. There are day one bugs still in existence that need fixing before any new features are added for any reason.
 

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Yall need to understand that Ford isn’t a software company - they’re trying, but it’s not happening without a complete reorg. Their software rollouts and feature development is slow and inefficient. What you want is months/year away to be included in new physical builds not updates in weeks like Tesla, Rivian, Lucid, chinese ev brands.

Software defined vehicles are the future but legacy auto manufactures will need to completely change their organizational structure - aka make a lot of tenured people unhappy and angry - and that’s not changing anytime soon during our mach-e’s infancy.
 
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Sketch App. Write your own message. Save it. Use it. Not hard at all.

Creating pet mode is a waste of resources. There are day one bugs still in existence that need fixing before any new features are added for any reason.
Glad you have inside knowledge of the resources available at ford. #staytoxic
 

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Seems kind of ridiculous that we can’t be cool with some people wanting a feature even though others don’t care about that feature.
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