What is one feature you hope Scout will include that has not yet been shown?

[Scoutsie]

Came home from a long night drive this morning (6hr drive in darkness). I hate to think about paying for it, but one tech option that might be nice (and honestly, will probably be mandatory in 5 years) will be some sort of thermal collision avoidance. OMG the number of deer that wanted to commit vehicular suicide last night was crazy. I had to drop down to fog speed for 100 miles to avoid devastating my car. I have had 2 deer hits in it already - first one was over $5k of damage (had about 1/4 of second before impact to react, and was driving at fog speed). 2nd I was driving faster, but had more reaction time - probably hit at under 10mph, $200 of damage. At least my truck has an attack bumper - have not kept track of it's hits - but no damage to date.

My wife got the worse animal hit so far. 1hr after purchasing her Mustang (used for 9k) she did 7k of damage in an animal collision.

I was curious to see if LiDAR can recognize deer/animals in general and it sounds like the answer is “they should.” Whether they actually do isn’t clear. It seems to be a “we need the AI to learn what these are” thing.

Since I know I’d like to not hit someone’s wayward dog trying to find its way home, and I’d imagine others probably feel the same way, it would be cool if collision avoidance systems could accurately learn what animals are and avoid them in IRL testing scenarios and then go become real living software updates. That would be great.

 

[ScoutTenderfoot]

Heated and ventilated seats; 360 cameras; heated steering wheel; aux panel, lots of storage; tilt and telescoping steering column; 12” touch screen; Dual-Zone Electronic Automatic Temperature Control; 12v power plugs; radio aux plug, center console ac vents for rear seats; power driver and passenger seats, cruise control, roll down rear window

 

[Mousehunter]

lidar and AI might work. NV and the human mind might not. A deer (or many other animals) have natural camouflage. I have had thermal and NV in hand - deer were completely standing out with thermal, and invisible with NV. Human mind would probably see them when they move - but sometimes that is a bit late to avoid a collision.

 

[mattbrew]

Maybe I missed it but having the traveler rear tailgate stay down and the rear hatch closed so a few long items can hang out the back.

 

[LastDayScout]

Came home from a long night drive this morning (6hr drive in darkness). I hate to think about paying for it, but one tech option that might be nice (and honestly, will probably be mandatory in 5 years) will be some sort of thermal collision avoidance. OMG the number of deer that wanted to commit vehicular suicide last night was crazy. I had to drop down to fog speed for 100 miles to avoid devastating my car. I have had 2 deer hits in it already - first one was over $5k of damage (had about 1/4 of second before impact to react, and was driving at fog speed). 2nd I was driving faster, but had more reaction time - probably hit at under 10mph, $200 of damage. At least my truck has an attack bumper - have not kept track of it's hits - but no damage to date.

My wife got the worse animal hit so far. 1hr after purchasing her Mustang (used for 9k) she did 7k of damage in an animal collision.

Volvo has a radar and visually based system to avoid moose, elk, and deer. Also, I found this that VWhas….

Australian roo vehicle avoidance" refers to the efforts to prevent car collisions with kangaroos ("roos") on Australian roads, often involving technologies like specialized radar systems, sonic emitters, or specific driving practices to detect and avoid these animals, particularly during dawn and dusk when they are most active on roads; a notable example is Volkswagen's "RooBadge" which uses location-based sound emissions to deter kangaroos based on their species in a particular area

 

[J Alynn]

Heated and ventilated seats; 360 cameras; heated steering wheel; aux panel, lots of storage; tilt and telescoping steering column; 12” touch screen; Dual-Zone Electronic Automatic Temperature Control; 12v power plugs; radio aux plug, center console ac vents for rear seats; power driver and passenger seats, cruise control, roll down rear window

As the thread is “one thing” please pick your favorite from your list .

 

[Scoutsie]

As the thread is “one thing” please pick your favorite from your list .

I assumed this was all stuff going onto a game controller-type situation, like the kind that you might buy for Secret Santa at Big Lots that is preloaded with 800 unlicensed PS1, Dreamcast, and N64 games, looks real sus, you know the kind I mean. I figured it would control all of these things remotely. Am I wrong?

 

[Logan]

I'm going to reiterate and continue to ask for 240v output from the Traveler (the Terra already has it, otherwise I'd mention it too).

If it has a plug, please make it on the outside of the vehicle. I'm also ok with a dongle/adapter that plugs into the NACS port (like what Hyundai does with their V2L adapters).

I just finished a 27hr power outage. I have a small generator that means we survived just fine (actually had a great time playing with the kiddos, to occupy their time, I got them to play OG Pokemon Red... but IRL . We had dice roll encouters with "wild pokemon cards", trainer fights, and then a "final boss" (me)).

To conserve fuel (propane tanks, the standard BBQ/Grill sized ones, used 1.5 of those), I was running it ~2-4hrs at a time, with a 4hr break, and moving the generator in/out of the garage each time. Better than a lot of those around me had it, but, also sort of a pain. It also wasn't powerful enough to run the homes heat pump/water heater, which means no heat.

A 240v output from the Traveler would mean that I'd have opened the garage, backed out the scout, plugged it into my transfer switch, and set a "don't let the battery drop below 50%" setting or something like that, and then locked it/walked back inside, never to have to think of it again (until it ran out of gas... but I bet we only used ~36kwh or so total, which should totally be doable with a full charge and full tank).

So yeah, that would have saved me a bunch of effort/sleep .