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Ford literally claimed their truck can pull over 1 million lbs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au3U72CX74I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au3U72CX74I
by jowsie 7y ago
Ford literally claimed their truck can pull over 1 million lbs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au3U72CX74I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au3U72CX74I
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- vonmoltke 7y agoWhich it did: https://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/a28506476/ford-electric-f150-train-tow-physics-explained/ https://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/a28506476/ford-electri... It just isn't as big an accomplishment as it looks, since it was on a railway.
- zaroth 7y agoBoth Tesla and Ford make a factual claim that has important caveats. Tesla Model 3 does have the lowest weighted probability of an injury of any car ever tested by NHTSA. The Ford prototype did pull 1 million pounds of railway cars. In the case of Tesla, it’s important to understand the limits and intent of the test and that it’s the lowest probability of injury when crashing into certain types of stationary objects or cars of roughly the same mass. That’s an important caveat but the Tesla did score much better than any other car ever has, and I think it’s fair to brag about that. In the case of the Ford, it turns out any vehicle that can pull with ~2,000 lbs of force could do the same thing. To me, that makes the demo basically a gimmick and “misleading” to the general public. By comparison, the world record holder for pulling a train with his teeth pulled over 575,000 pounds. Ok, now that’s impressive! [1] [1] - https://youtu.be/CTeb19ICMD4 https://youtu.be/CTeb19ICMD4