Must be the Ford Motor Company is confident to allow their customers really engage in hemming in research and development for a new car! Ford invited potential customers to participate in the driving simulator to give a special engineers comments on display on the dashboard of the Central Electric Company in 2012. So what is - butterflies, solar panels or wind turbines? What do you see in the presentation of your dash?
The participants called for Ford to use a variety of paintings potential in laboratory tests. In a laboratory environment, the participants "drove" a means test through a circuit 11 miles on city streets, and hills and the country. Participants felt the same information that appears in the effective development of electricity, including two 4.2-inch color LCD escort speedometer in the center. Here, it is expected that the information on the status of the charge, and the distance from the charge points, and the corresponding budget surplus range. How to understand the concepts of size and design by the participants helps to ensure the extension of a unique touch MyFord ® interactive display is easy to use and meet the needs of proprietary information. MyFord Touch on the development of electric drivers and provides features information on a range of destinations and points of loading.
Team and also members of the Association of Michigan for electric cars, and a group of enthusiasts for electric cars, to verify the accuracy of the information to the driver. Has been received well by the concepts of the group, which reviewed the information received, especially for people who are not familiar with the experience of the electric car. The crucial test to find a way to provide drivers with enough information to allay fears that the expected results of the "fear of." Concern is about when a driver is concerned they will have enough energy to get their car to the mount point.
And specific to this question, and butterflies are used in the display panel to represent graphically a range of additional load beyond the point person. He considered this graph, as well as other information, the subject of appropriate emotional. Was not well received - and there is the issue that he was seeking - circuit. It was seen as a cold, boring and not exciting abandoned it.
Another example is the coach of the original brake showed the absolute amount of energy that was captured and returned to the battery and the energy lost due to friction. Participants provided feedback which was very complex and shows the energy lost to friction is well understood.
Engineers simplified the program to show the relative proportion of the energy captured from what is available to be captured. This gave the pilots on the degree of which was easier to understand, and has been shown to be more motivated. In addition, engineers received comments on the alternatives of the terms used to represent what could become a point of care, and the surplus in the budget and monitors.
For those who want more information in depth, depending on the mass MyView provides more options for customization. Using the five buttons on the steering wheel, and owners can focus their own electrical configuration screen custom information in the left screen. MyView gives owners the opportunity to choose a travel budgets and a range of views and decide whether to display the text associated with each screen.
This system allows the driver to also improve their use of regenerative braking of the vehicle to recover kinetic energy and return it to the battery. Brake Coach gives feedback on their performance braking drivers - and the impact on a range - once in the car comes to a complete stop after braking event.
The right to supply in the development of electric blue butterflies also used to represent the additional chart outside the scope of the intended mount point - the more the greater the range. Gained a mile to reinforce the message at the end of each flight display screen provides distance traveled, through regenerative braking, fuel and energy used compared to saved by driving electric.
This display panel proposed to work side by side with applications for smart phones help drivers understand how to drive in order to use electricity more efficiently. Development is scheduled to be in power in some emerging markets in early 2012. Is modified his plans for the development and launched an electric in New York and California, and provides in the spring of 2012, as follows: Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Orlando, Phoenix, Portland, Durham, Raleigh, Tucson, Richmond, and San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington, DC
It's refreshing to see the cars that have been initiated in the new technologies that really wants to get feedback from its customers.