The Most Stolen Cars
(Source: National Insurance Crime Bureau)
Ford’s answer to locks that don’t work to keep intruders out of your vehicle:
We will sell you cameras with a monthly fee so you might (if they work) have a video of who broke into your truck.
Good luck getting anybody to pay for that, Ford Model e.
I can’t wait to see earnings (LOSSES) broken out by group next year.
GO BLUE!
Are defeatable door locks part of Fords strategy to drive customers to buy security subscriptions?
While Ford management may consider this strategy brilliant, it really is despicable.
But it is Ford we are talking about.
Well, when the E suite said they wanted F series to totally dominate Silverado, they were serious. So we did - in every category, F-series is number 1 to Silverado's number 2, even in vehicle theft (yes, Silverado is #2 vehicle stolen in US of A)
Yeah, fellow Fordsters - way to go!!!!
So how about avoiding all the pomp and circumstance (i.e. one more thing that could go outright fail and conflict with the other interoperability and echo system). Why seemingly pay for the option and then the subscription service for what when you can opt in for insurance replacement value in the event it's unrecoverable? The only value I see this adding is it recording to the cloud and the police being able to identify and apprehend the perpetrator in real time plus/minus a standard deviation.
I might do this if I owned an eTransit and ran my business out of it for fear of losing all of my equipment and personal belongings, but we're not talking about eTransits. I would need to understand how effective it is before springing for it, and I doubt Ford would be able to articulate that for quite some time. That would be a no.
@fyp that group should have invested in Purchased Services of a professional vehicle thief. It could have saved the company a lot of money.
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Perhaps you could steer the conversations you’ve heard to WHY CANT WE MAKE LOCKS THAT KEEP UNWANTED PEOPLE OUT? Or do we not have the “right talent” to do that?
A video of a crime only helps you if you know how to actually find the criminal, can get the police to arrest them, a prosecutor to charge them with a crime, a jury to convict them, and a judge to sentence them to pay you restitution. Look up LoJack, even tracking your vehicle doesn’t stop anyone from stealing it, and they are officially out of business this week.
I wish we could focus on making quality, reliable vehicles that people want to buy.
Buy a Tesla. It’s included
Joke about it if you may, but many people would pay to have video data from the cameras on their new vehicle (like a ring cam for your house but for your vehicle for those not in the know). I know the idea has been floated within the company for several years now. Might be the right time to do it now that we have the proper resources to manage and market that data.
The e team did have a second idea: build better door locks that actually work to keep intruders out of your vehicle, but charge a monthly subscription fee to make them operational.