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    From danny burstein@21:1/5 to danny burstein on Fri Sep 22 00:00:52 2023
    That's a FORD, not a GORD. Ouch

    In <ueiive$nf6$1@reader2.panix.com> danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> writes:

    In <ueifuq$3nkq0$1@dont-email.me> "Jim Wilkins" <muratlanne@gmail.com> writes:

    [snip]

    I'd like to know how many miles per KWH it actually gets and what she >>complains about. I test-drive new cars and trucks to narrow the focus of

    Real world experience, Gord C-Max "Energi" model.

    AAAARRRHHHHGGGHGHGH. That's a FORD C-Max.

    Typically 4 miles per kw-hr when driving 60 mph. Cut that
    down by a third if using air onditioning...

    Larger veh's would, of course, be less.


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  • From Jim Wilkins@21:1/5 to danny burstein on Thu Sep 21 20:28:06 2023
    "danny burstein" wrote in message news:ueilfk$6d6$1@reader2.panix.com...

    FORD C-Max.

    Typically 4 miles per kw-hr when driving 60 mph. Cut that
    down by a third if using air onditioning...

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    https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/people/doug-field.html
    My boss at Segway.

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  • From danny burstein@21:1/5 to Jim Wilkins on Fri Sep 22 01:28:49 2023
    In <uein3l$3oo1r$1@dont-email.me> "Jim Wilkins" <muratlanne@gmail.com> writes:

    "danny burstein" wrote in message news:ueilfk$6d6$1@reader2.panix.com...

    FORD C-Max.

    Typically 4 miles per kw-hr when driving 60 mph. Cut that
    down by a third if using air onditioning...

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    https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/people/doug-field.html
    My boss at Segway.

    Looks like he's the point person in trying to bring
    all the various (currently outsourced) pieces of software
    under the Ford umbrella so they'll all talk nice to
    each other and Ford can upgrade without HUGE problems.

    I heard a report a week or two ago that all this
    segmentation and outside contracting for the different
    modules was a big reason Ford was pulling out
    its hairs..

    And I can tell you as an owner that this SUCKS and we
    had to install a 12V battery cut off switch so we
    could force full computer resets...

    Every few months the various systems in the
    car (radio, headlights, climate control, oh, and
    the speedometer and what "gear" were we were in)
    would go kablooie [a]. There was no simple way
    to reboot everything, so we had to unscrew the
    grounding cable from the chassis - which was a
    very LONG screw in the back. Oh, and it sparked
    and sparked and sparked as I applied the socket
    wrench to it.

    Forcing my teeth to clench as I worried as to what
    that might be doint to the electronics.

    So we paid the shop an hour or two to wire
    a simple cut-off switch. (I could have done
    it if my eyes and hands were ten years younger).

    And yes, we still have to force the resets..

    [a] these work off the 12V system, as opposed
    to the electric motor which is high voltage.

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  • From Jim Wilkins@21:1/5 to danny burstein on Fri Sep 22 09:10:13 2023
    "danny burstein" wrote in message news:ueiqkh$dig$1@reader2.panix.com...

    https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/people/doug-field.html

    Looks like he's the point person in trying to bring
    all the various (currently outsourced) pieces of software
    under the Ford umbrella so they'll all talk nice to
    each other and Ford can upgrade without HUGE problems.

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    I'd rather be unemployed than take that job, or Production Manager. I just
    got off a chat with my low cost ISP whose programmers are incompetent, after much squeezing the agent finally admitted the login problem I see was their fault.

    When I was a circuit board designer I learned all the standard manufacturing specs and tolerances and put the necessary ones in the bids to board makers, many times they'd cut their price by ignoring the ones that were difficult
    for them. Eventually the salespeople learned they couldn't BS me and I
    learned who could meet the harder specs for controlled impedance digital microwave radio circuits and sent bids only to them. The hard proof was that they would add a test pattern for their impedance measuring equipment to the panel of circuit boards.

    It's the same with software, many programmers are better graphic artists
    than engineers, in fact a programmer who understands complex (or even
    simple) electronics is rare, I've been put in that spot and had to take programming courses to do it. At Segway where Doug Fields was head of engineering the mathematical basis of controlling the brushless motor is similar to and as difficult as the NASA space communications coding I
    learned at Mitre. My one interaction with him made me question his expertise
    in electronic math.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_analysis

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  • From Jim Wilkins@21:1/5 to danny burstein on Fri Sep 22 10:44:34 2023
    "Jim Wilkins" wrote in message news:uek3om$8gs6$1@dont-email.me...

    "danny burstein" wrote in message news:ueiqkh$dig$1@reader2.panix.com...

    https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/people/doug-field.html

    Looks like he's the point person in trying to bring
    all the various (currently outsourced) pieces of software
    under the Ford umbrella so they'll all talk nice to
    each other and Ford can upgrade without HUGE problems.

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    I'm not articulate, persuasive and diplomatic enough to keep them from
    becoming defensive, sullen and uncooperative when I find their errors and display them on an oscilloscope. One reason for buying machine tools was to make models to demonstrate solutions I couldn't convincingly explain. Doug
    did apologize via his secretary when I solved his request literally and he hadn't expected the consequence.

    On one project I was given responsibility for the backplane which interconnected the boards designed by the individual engineers, so it's
    signal specifications acted to coordinate them. The project engineer did the negotiation while I managed the documentation and saw how tricky it was to
    make them work together. On another project two board designers had
    stubbornly conflicting ideas on ribbon cable connectors and I had to make custom cables with each signal/ground pair separated and twisted 180 on one
    end and hand staked into the connector notches. Amazingly it worked, at
    least on the ground. I and most of the other techs left before it was flight tested.

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  • From Jim Wilkins@21:1/5 to All on Fri Sep 22 12:49:09 2023
    "Jim Wilkins" wrote in message news:uek99i$9po0$1@dont-email.me...

    On another project two board designers had
    stubbornly conflicting ideas on ribbon cable connectors and I had to make custom cables with each signal/ground pair separated and twisted 180 on one
    end and hand staked into the connector notches.

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    A problem with engineering playgrounds and "country clubs" is that they all want to be in charge which means they all end up working by themselves.
    Either the project manager or their techs need multi-disciplinary skills to help coordinate them.

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