Ford Recall for Ambulances Only

Guys, I have been there! Good to see that someone is listening and maybe it will lead to better sensors for Ford and Chevys! I was in the back of an '08 F450 with a critical cardiac patient when the truck shut down 18 miles from the ER. Had to wait for almost 20 minutes for the nearest truck to get to me all the while I am watching the patient have a large heart attack on the cardiac monitor. Trust me when I say I was mad! At my urging, my agency contacted NHTSA and filed a compliant. If you remember, in DC a while back a couple of units shutdown due to the same sensor. That being said, the county next to mine uses only Duramaxs and they have had a similar problem. The only difference is that the Ford shuts down completely whether you see the "stop safely now" screen or not, while the Chevys go into limp mode that can still get you to a safe spot off the roadway, into a parking lot, off the mountain or wherever. The problem is CHEAP sensors! You never hear of Freightliners having problems with them. We have a million miles on our newer fleet of FLs and not a single failure. They don't occur in the airline industry either and they use a similar technology. Maybe they need a computer program that recognizes a bad sensor, or hell even a another sensor to monitor that one! What is totally dangerous is the truck shutting down almost immediately. This is a SAFETY issue that should be addressed promptly and I hope this is the tip of the iceberg. I own a Ford and don't want the risk of it shutting down with my wife and son driving it near a 'bad' part of town, or pulling a trailer up/down the mountain when it shuts down. IT is ridiculous. I am not trying to start a brand war, or point fingers, but damn it looks like the engineers that designed these things should have thought of things like this. Maybe they did, and it was the bean counters that made the final decision. Who knows?