A Ford employee says he lost his job after being accused of stealing a $1.95 cookie, only for the company to later realize he’d actually paid for it.
60-year-old Kurt Kromm had worked at Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant for 11 years, but told Shifting Gears he was fired after the company believed security footage showed him taking a cookie from the break room without paying.
It’s a shame. My parents owned two ford vans for my entire childhood and both served my family extremely well for more than two decades. I have owned three and they have all been excellent. I can’t say that I’d buy a new ford with everything that I’ve read recently.
I used to be a Honda/Toyota fan but now Chinese EVs are looking like the future on all fronts… Quality, safety, features, range, and most importantly price. They completely wallop every other manufacturer.
Do you have a Chinese EV?
I’ve had extended test drives in a few plus long term hire for work and they definitely aren’t better than the European counterparts in any way.
I suppose if you are from the US they would seem good quality, though since Americans have astonishingly low quality expectations in their domestic vehicles.
Chinese EV are a bit cheaper at the moment partly because USA tariff means there is global oversupply elsewhere and partly because the Chinese government allows them to be sold at a massive loss.
Here in the UK they sell them but there are huge issues with getting basic service parts and if it needs accident repair (like a new wing mirror, any glass, lamps) it isn’t going to happen and you won’t be legally allowed to drive without a wing mirror in the UK.
Chinese manufacturing industry doesn’t have to complete with european environmental or labour standards and they have a lax approach to where the raw materials come from to say the least.
Make no mistake, the price will go up if they reach a monopoly level.
If you buy a cheap Chinese EV you are personally contributing to undermining the society we live in, exploiting child labour, and polluting our air and seas. I wouldn’t want that in my conscience.
They don’t really seem to do that. Any industry that the Chinese government points at and decides to dominate, it just happens.
Look at solar. It was expensive as hell and super slow to advance. They decided that they were going to do solar now. They set up a city, offered people an increased basic income to move there, Told the banks to offer extremely favorable loans to companies that were going to make solar/solar components. It’s been decades now and the prices haven’t increased.
Don’t get me wrong, I have a lot of problems with a lot of their humanitarian issues, but when they poked at tesla and said, let’s do those next. It’s just China doing what China does, and in the end, the worst of it will be putting the west’s auto manufacturing out of business. They’ve ready done it with textiles, plastics and consumer electronics.
Since they really like to film your face while driving and love stealumg data for… Reasons, that’s a no for me
Im not defending privacy overton pushing shenanigans, they are all bullshit.
But that face camera thing is about to become an EU mandate.
All the companies are gearing up for data suction (EU or otherwise), if they don’t already have a robust system in place.
China is bad for it, yes, but so is everyone else.
It’s all bullshit from all sides
The face camera is actually a really good idea. And for a few hundred dollars, that driver is not alert let’s pull off the road safely could be handled in car, on local models and never have to send any fucking telemetry off to anywhere.
But of course, that info will be sold.