you mean the parking garages that charges 20 bucks an hour? yeah thats not feasible, i bought a parking space for 500 a month in my building on 72nd and there are no charging spots. same situation for literally the whole block on my street.
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Longtime Ford Engineer Joins Apple Car Team
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Yeah, midtown Manhattan for now. Owning a car here does not make sense for me. This might be the first Apple Product category I don’t buy!
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Interesting. Hiring somebody with experience designing car interiors certainly adds to the evidence suggesting that Apple is not just working on an autonomous car software package.
If you don’t know about a topic it’s best not to be too strident in your commentary about it.
A Tesla recently rammed a private jet on an airport tarmac. There’s quite a catalogue of catastrophic failures actually. (The guardrail or cone in one case was a concrete Jersey barrier that dismantled the car and driver.)
It's funny to hear people who know nothing about the automotive industry pretend to know something about it.
Hiring an engineer from an established top tier manufacturer is a good idea.
Hiring an engineer from an established top tier manufacturer is a good idea.
I own a Mach E and the software on the car is very good and includes Apple Car play. It is a great car and Apple can definitely benefit from Ford’s manufacturing expertise. Where Ford could use improvement is on its mobile apps. Worst ever? You clearly don’t work in Windows and haven’t used a food ordering app.Really don't know how that's going to help Apple because I own a Ford product and their software is the worst ever.
As far as I know, Ford is the only manufacturer that engineered its gas tanks not to need caps, which actually requires significant engineering. The onboard scale technology on its new F150 lightening is also pretty impressive in how it is used to calculate towing capacity and distance. Ford also has plenty of patents that have been issued as well as many that are pending.
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I didnt mean the hourly places although sometimes you can work a monthly deal with them. $500 is reasonable for a parking spot. You can definitely find a garage around that price that has some charging spots. Not sure how close it would be to your building though. It is nice to have a spot in your building though.
Kind of like a Tesla in the lock down department except likely to be build much better than a Tesla.
When my buddy moved to the city he actually rented a spot across in NJ just off the Path. I think it was around $200 a month. When he started making better money he got one down the block from his apartment.
Maybe but for some products Apple really brought the pricing in for far less than expected.
given that this is about apple car, which is a EV, i'm asking for EV relevance. but cool, didn't know about the gas cap.As far as I know, Ford is the only manufacturer that engineered its gas tanks not to need caps, which actually requires significant engineering. The onboard scale technology on its new F150 lightening is also pretty impressive in how it is used to calculate towing capacity and distance. Ford also has plenty of patents that have been issued as well as many that are pending.
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I've been shopping for one of those 1:18 scale ones myself. Can't decide between that and the Lego version.