Intelligence

[GeorgiaScout]

How about we let the drivers drive. Old school cruise with no lane assist. Who needs it off road anyway, there are no lanes. No OTA updates. Make us bring it in. We don’t need Scout (or anyone else) linked to us 24/7. No level 1, 2, 3 or whatever automatic driver. Just a great scout and a driver who loves it.

 

[Scoutsie]

I can see why someone would want to remain in control of their vehicle, but I’m not sure that I understand the appeal of manual updates? No pants or shoes need to be put on for that.

 

[GeorgiaScout]

Ok, ok. I’ll relent with the OTA updates. I guess I just don’t want to be connected to any networks ALL the time. Sometimes you just gotta leave your phone at home and get away.

 

[R1TVT]

How about we let the drivers drive. Old school cruise with no lane assist. Who needs it off road anyway, there are no lanes.

You don't need to use it - it's optional, and lots of people love HWY assist on long road trips. Also - this tech adds important safety features

No OTA updates. Make us bring it in

No concept of what would make that appealing to anyone

 

[eddiet1212]

My grandfather & father were mechanics and I could see them echoing the same sentiment. Lol!!! Maybe there will be a "basic" Scout, but i assure you that the distributors, coil wires, drum brakes, and carburetors of the past are not returning. I think my dad just cursed me....

Holding onto the past might seem comfortable, but to truly progress in life one must accept change, as it is an inevitable aspect of existence. The only thing that stays the same is that everything changes....

 

[J Alynn]

My grandfather & father were mechanics and I could see them echoing the same sentiment. Lol!!! Maybe there will be a "basic" Scout, but i assure you that the distributors, coil wires, drum brakes, and carburetors of the past are not returning. I think my dad just cursed me....

Holding onto the past might seem comfortable, but to truly progress in life one must accept change, as it is an inevitable aspect of existence. The only thing that stays the same is that everything changes....

Wish more people understood your statement. You don’t have to be an early adopter but you need to evolve, otherwise evolution forgets you exist!

 

[Scoutsie]

Ok, ok. I’ll relent with the OTA updates. I guess I just don’t want to be connected to any networks ALL the time. Sometimes you just gotta leave your phone at home and get away.

Ah! That I can understand. Thanks for explaining. I can fully understand wanting to just get out and see people: when I had to stay indoors for a couple of months after two successive surgeries, I gave an extremely honest answer to a cashier who asked how I was doing at the store before I realized what words were coming out of my mouth . Makes total sense.

 

[RebelliousPeasant]

Actually there might be something to the OP's request in this thread. It would be nice if the fancy semi-autonomous cruise control had the ability to fail back to a more basic version. What I mean is this;

My current ride is a Hyundai Ioniq 5. It has what they call HDA2 which means it does adaptive cruise, lane centering, sign reading, all that stuff. The problem is that in the winter when you're on the road for a while a lot of the sensors get covered with snow and ice and start failing. This triggers warnings on the dash and disables certain features which is fine and makes sense. The problem is that it totally disables them, so if you're on the highway using adaptive cruise and the radar gets caked with snow then you lose all cruise control when it could easily still do basic cruise control since that has been a thing forever and requires no sensors.

So maybe Scout could offer fallback modes that are more basic and akin to the capabilities of cars from the 90s and before. Have the adaptive cruise and all that but if the sensors are blocked then let it fail back to a more basic form that still gives some capability like basic cruise control.