2020 IKE raw and unedited
The TFL guys just posted their raw and unedited version of all 3 trucks doing their IKE runs. VIDEO Ford seems to run higher temps for engine, oil, and trans. It also sounded like the cooling f...
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I can think of multiple instances in recent years where newer systems, particularly active collision avoidance almost resulted in an unnecessary collision on vehicle equipped with that technology, and at least one instance where, if equipped, would not have allowed the avoidance maneuver I performed to avoid the collision.
The technology is great, but what it cannot always account for are conditions it can't "see" or the actions or reactions by other drivers/vehicles as a result of the "automated" action taken by another vehicle.
Prime example, came around a corner, into blinding sunlight, fully loaded, in the 07 Ram. Camper on the back, 6000lb trailer with surge brakes in tow. Vehicle stopped in my lane waiting to turn left. I could not stop in time. Active collision avoidance would have hammered the brakes on for me, maybe a split second before I could do the same. Still wouldn't have stopped before rear ending this vehicle. I recognized that and also recognized immediately that the shoulder was just wide enough to stuff an 8' + wide train through it without contacting the other vehicle. But shoulder also had a deep ditch on the outside.
After a brief brake application, I swerved quickly onto the shoulder to avoid impact, but also realize that the trailer would swing wide and probably break lateral traction on the grass/gravel and get sucked into the ditch. So immediately dropped a gear and dropped the hammer to yank the trailer straight. Ended up accelerating past the stopped vehicle which probably seemed counterintuitive to the person who was about to get rear ended by 9 tons of vehicle.
Couldn't have done any of this if the trucks computer hit the brakes hard. The delay in letting me the operator take over would have prevented the right shoulder pass.
Even last night. In old Tahoe, raining, traffic, I made a right turn onto a 4 lane street after a vehicle passed. Right as I turned, another vehicle came out from under the bridge, out of a blind corner going fast. Have to see the intersection to understand.
Car very likely would have rear ended us or had to make some very evasive maneuver not to. Therefore, I judged he'd stay in his lane and I need to get to the left lane fast. Hammered it mid turn, in 2wd. Locker kicked in in back and I did a power slide right into the clear lane as fast as one could after breaking traction. If I'd happened to be in one of our vehicles with traction control and stability control, it would have chopped the throttle and stopped the slide, not knowing "why" I threw the vehicle into a power slide and didn't let up. And the driver behind me would have had a more difficult and urgent decision to make, that I spared him the necessity of making.
Now, not bragging, that I have better cognitive and driving skills than the average driver, but I do. Period. Some of these features are a hinderance or a danger. Sometimes they help, sometimes the driver can out think the car.
The technology is great, but what it cannot always account for are conditions it can't "see" or the actions or reactions by other drivers/vehicles as a result of the "automated" action taken by another vehicle.
Prime example, came around a corner, into blinding sunlight, fully loaded, in the 07 Ram. Camper on the back, 6000lb trailer with surge brakes in tow. Vehicle stopped in my lane waiting to turn left. I could not stop in time. Active collision avoidance would have hammered the brakes on for me, maybe a split second before I could do the same. Still wouldn't have stopped before rear ending this vehicle. I recognized that and also recognized immediately that the shoulder was just wide enough to stuff an 8' + wide train through it without contacting the other vehicle. But shoulder also had a deep ditch on the outside.
After a brief brake application, I swerved quickly onto the shoulder to avoid impact, but also realize that the trailer would swing wide and probably break lateral traction on the grass/gravel and get sucked into the ditch. So immediately dropped a gear and dropped the hammer to yank the trailer straight. Ended up accelerating past the stopped vehicle which probably seemed counterintuitive to the person who was about to get rear ended by 9 tons of vehicle.
Couldn't have done any of this if the trucks computer hit the brakes hard. The delay in letting me the operator take over would have prevented the right shoulder pass.
Even last night. In old Tahoe, raining, traffic, I made a right turn onto a 4 lane street after a vehicle passed. Right as I turned, another vehicle came out from under the bridge, out of a blind corner going fast. Have to see the intersection to understand.
Car very likely would have rear ended us or had to make some very evasive maneuver not to. Therefore, I judged he'd stay in his lane and I need to get to the left lane fast. Hammered it mid turn, in 2wd. Locker kicked in in back and I did a power slide right into the clear lane as fast as one could after breaking traction. If I'd happened to be in one of our vehicles with traction control and stability control, it would have chopped the throttle and stopped the slide, not knowing "why" I threw the vehicle into a power slide and didn't let up. And the driver behind me would have had a more difficult and urgent decision to make, that I spared him the necessity of making.
Now, not bragging, that I have better cognitive and driving skills than the average driver, but I do. Period. Some of these features are a hinderance or a danger. Sometimes they help, sometimes the driver can out think the car.
