IncognitosisEl Tesla Model Y ya es mío
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://javipas.com/2026/03/19/el-tesla-model-y-ya-es-mio-2/
Blaulicht-BotBad Bentheim / Schüttorf (ots) - In der Nacht von Montag, 16. März 2026, auf Dienstag, 17. März 2026, kam es in Bad Bentheim und Schüttorf zu mehreren Aufbrüchen von Pkw. Die Polizei prüft derzeit, ob ein Zusammenhang zwischen den Taten ...
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#BMW #Branchen #Citroën #Fahrzeug #Ford #FordC-MAX #FordFiesta #FordKuga #Nissan #NissanJuke #Personenkraftwagen #Pkw #Serie #Transport
Heßdorf (ots) - Am Freitagmittag (06.03.2026) ereignete sich auf der Staatsstraße 2259 bei Röhrach (Lkrs. Erlangen-Höchstadt) ein Verkehrsunfall zwischen zwei Pkw. Ein 66-jähriger Mann wurde dabei schwer verletzt. Die Staatsstraße ist derzeit ...
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JdeBPThey have.
I've not only seen this indirectly from watching #AshleyNeal on YouTube, where xe sometimes hands out advice on how to operate the controls based upon a mode of operation that my cars definitely have not ever had, but directly experienced it, not least from my recent experience of renting a #FordKuga.
It's all sorts of little things. Like the engine note in a hybrid EV not being a reliable indicator.
https://mastodonapp.uk/@JdeBP/115382968970608778
Or the vehicle slowing down *after* a reduction in speed limit instead of ahead of it. Or because a caravan/lorry in the next lane has a circled speed limit on its rear doors.
https://mastodonapp.uk/deck/@JdeBP/115383272830329930
I also remember how much different power steering made driving feel.
#driving #cars #ElectricVehicles
JdeBP (@[email protected])
One of the annoyances of the #FordKuga, which I suspect applies to all hybrid vehicles, is that the engine note is completely misleading. The engine kicks in at unexpected times and at high revs that do not match the motive power being applied at all. If you are used to listening to engine note as a signal of when to change gear on a vehicle with manual transmission and liquid fuel, it is very jarring. (Presumably it is running the engine at an optimal point on its power curve, which is of course one positive aspect to this.) With a fully electric vehicle, there's no engine note and no problem. This is one of the in-between-two-stools things that is unique to hybrid vehicles. #ElectricVehicles #HybridVehicles
Agnieszka SerafinowiczFord pozwala zdjąć ręce z kierownicy w Fordach Puma i Kuga. System BlueCruise trafi do popularnych modeli
Do tej pory jazda w trybie „hands-off” (bez trzymania kierownicy) była w Europie dostępna tylko w elektrycznym Mustangu Mach-E (a i to w niektórych lokalizacjach, głównie na fragmentach autostrad, także w Polsce).
Ford oficjalnie ogłosił, że technologia BlueCruise trafi szeroką ławą do najpopularniejszych modeli marki, w tym do miejskiej Pumy i rodzinnej Kugi. Zmiany wejdą w życie już w modelach na rok 2026.
Ford zaprezentował plan znacznego rozszerzenia dostępności swojego zaawansowanego systemu wspomagania kierowcy. Od wiosny 2026 roku funkcja BlueCruise będzie oferowana w czterech kolejnych modelach:
- Ford Puma
- Ford Puma Gen-E (elektryczna wersja)
- Ford Kuga
- Ford Ranger PHEV
Na czym polega „Hands-off, eyes-on”?
BlueCruise to system autonomii poziomu 2+, który pozwala kierowcy całkowicie zdjąć ręce z kierownicy podczas jazdy na wyznaczonych odcinkach autostrad. Kluczowy jest jednak dopisek „eyes-on” (pod kontrolą wzroku).
To nie jest system, który pozwala na drzemkę czy czytanie książki. Samochód wykorzystuje kamerę skierowaną na kierowcę, aby monitorować pozycję głowy i linię wzroku – nawet jeśli prowadzimy w okularach przeciwsłonecznych. Jeśli system wykryje, że nie patrzymy na drogę, wyłączy wspomaganie.
Gdy warunki są spełnione, auto samodzielnie steruje układem kierowniczym, przyspiesza, hamuje i utrzymuje pozycję na pasie ruchu – zarówno przy prędkościach autostradowych, jak i w korkach.
Blue Zones: Gdzie można tak jeździć?
Technologia działa wyłącznie na wyznaczonych odcinkach autostrad, zwanych „Blue Zones”. Obecnie w Europie wyznaczono już ponad 135 000 kilometrów takich tras (są także w Polsce).
System jest homologowany i dopuszczony do użytku w 16 europejskich krajach, w tym w Polsce. Jak podaje producent, zasięg jest tak duży, że klient podróżujący ze Sztokholmu do Rzymu może pokonać ponad 2000 km (około 25 godzin jazdy), praktycznie nie dotykając kierownicy (ale musi patrzeć na drogę).
Kiedy w sprzedaży?
Funkcja BlueCruise będzie dostępna w wyżej wymienionych modelach z roku modelowego 2026, wyposażonych w odpowiedni pakiet (Driver Assistance Pack).
Banki Żywności i Ford łączą siły. Rusza ogólnopolska zbiórka dla potrzebujących
#fordBluecruise #fordKuga #fordPuma #jazdaAutonomiczna #news #rangerPhev #systemyAsystujace #technologiaWSamochodzie
It's funny to relate.
But it's terrifying to experience when you are toodling along the M25 at 60mph, it reads an NSL sign from somewhere, decides that you're doing 30mph over the speed limit, slams the brakes on hard, and the traffic behind almost runs into you.
The worrying thing is that this seems to be related to the well-known decade-old #FordKuga problem of the SatNav aerial failing. It failed when parked in a 30mph zone, which is why, I suspect, it thinks that NSL means 30mph. Because otherwise it is a bizarre default.
So (if this hypothesis is correct) from a computer programming view it's one of those nasty problems that one cannot replicate unless something else has failed in a particular way.
I should give dishonourable mention to the way that traffic sign detection detects any traffic signs for side roads as applying to the main road.
This is as much a problem in the case where there's a 30mph side road off a dual carriageway as it is on one particular roundabout where two of the passed exits immediately raise the speed limit to 50mph but the exit taken is still at the 40mph that was signed on entry to the roundabout.
It occurred to me that the behaviour of the vehicle (sudden deceleration after passing speed limits, creeping into the back of the vehicle in front, total ignorance of traffic lights, failure to see lanes in many cases including corners and bends) is stereotypical "boy racer" stuff. Have we accidentally constructed a mechanical model of how boy racers think about the roads?
And do we really want a future where *everyone* drives like a boy racer because that's how "driver assistance" makes the vehicles behave?
Turning on all of the "driver assistance" features in the #FordKuga gives an idea of what fully automated driving would be like.
It's bad.
Traffic sign detection has decided that all NSL signs mean a 30 mph speed limit, which plays merry Hell with dual-carriageway and motorway driving.
Automatic cruise control setting adjustment causes rapid and sudden deceleration *right at the point of* passing speed limit signs.
Speed limit signs perfectly legible to humans are missed. Nonexistent speed limit signs are hallucinated from vehicle decor.
Adaptive cruise control causes high acceleration into the leading vehicle on bends. It also does not bring the vehicle to a complete stop if the leading vehicle stops.
I can see why #AshleyNeal calls lane centring "the cyclist killer". It also self-cancels on many A and most B roads I use.
The ironic feature of it all is that one has to spend all of one's time on one's toes actively fighting what the vehicle does.
The #FordKuga owner's manual that actually comes in the vehicle warns against putting the home charging connector cable in water, and warns against holding the home charging connector cable by the flexible cable.
Which of course immediately makes the careful novice user worried about rain. There is no occurrence of the word "rain" anywhere in Ford's user manual.
It's only from dodgy third-party WWW sites that one learns what seems to be the case from simple visual inspection: the home charging cable is weatherproofed (against light rain) when plugged in, as there is a lip that extends beyond the terminals; albeit that one does not want the fault/charging sensor box exposed to the elements.
#Ford, your manual should mention rain. It's such an obvious question.
I'm not sure whether the warning against holding the cable by the cable is especially because of a cable risk when live or is just the normal warning that non-rewireable plug sheaths are not load bearing.
One of the annoyances of the #FordKuga, which I suspect applies to all hybrid vehicles, is that the engine note is completely misleading.
The engine kicks in at unexpected times and at high revs that do not match the motive power being applied at all. If you are used to listening to engine note as a signal of when to change gear on a vehicle with manual transmission and liquid fuel, it is very jarring.
(Presumably it is running the engine at an optimal point on its power curve, which is of course one positive aspect to this.)
With a fully electric vehicle, there's no engine note and no problem. This is one of the in-between-two-stools things that is unique to hybrid vehicles.