Is Ford out of their frikkin' minds?

[Archae]

I mean, accident waiting to happen, morans... :wtf:

Ford To Debut Pickup Truck With Mobile Office

POSTED: 5:56 am CST November 1, 2005

DETROIT -- Ford's planning to let you take the office along in the truck.

It will soon offer wireless mobile offices in its F-series pickups. A company spokesman said it will likely cost about $3,000 for a building contractor or other worker to have the option added to a new truck.

That would include a wireless-equipped computer, a printer and a global positioning system. Add-ons like a digital camera and a credit card scanner will be available.

http://www.themilwaukeechannel.com/irresistible/5220384/detail.html

[jmowreader]

1. A lot of my customers use the cabs of their pickups as their offices

The guy will have a file cabinet at home, and everything else he uses will be in the truck. This isn't too bad.

[Archae]

2. Baloney.

Unless the truck (or car) is STOPPED, it's an accident that is goiung to happen.

[Telly Savalas]

3. I think that's the idea. (The vehicle being stopped that is.)

For a lot of people in construction and other businesses, it's a great idea.

It's just as likely that some dumbfuck will cause an accident because they were playing with Microsoft Project on their computer as it is for some dumbfuck reading a book while driving.

[Archae]

4. I hope so.

Just look at the accidents from morans on their cell phones while driving...

[Deja Q]

6. Or if he has to live in his truck, he can sit in it and resume-hunt until

the gas-driven generator runs out!
:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

[Kenneth ken]

11. I will tend to agree with you

I do think Ford recognized that a large portion of their F-series buyers are people who essentially work out of their vehicles. Given that these people tend to work in fields that require a decent amount of common sense (the dumb ones fall off third floors and other similar things) they're probably smart enough to not try to run the office while running the vehicle.

Although the flip side of that would be the not-so-common-sense types buying the vehicle because it has the built-in office option and trying to run the office and vehicle at the same time. :eyes:

[Deja Q]

5. Drivers with cell phones are bad enough. This is sheer irresponsibility!

I'd usually say "Let the filth go bankrupt", but as we've all seen, the filth end up going bankrupt and getting golden parachutes while all the workers lose their parachutes and get golden showers instead.

So I don't know what to say. Except maybe let the twits who invented this monstrosity and their bosses and their bosses' bosses and their bosses' bosses' bosses all do some real work and do a test drive/quality control analysis first! Work it to the limit, y'all!!! :goad: :goad: :goad:

Put the execs in our spot and maybe we'd get better, safer products in the first place... instead of cheap shoddily built garbage meant to be replaced by next year's model. Which is all irrelevant because such a vehicle is one of those drug-induced 1950s "concept cars" that were more ego trips than anything even remotely productive.

Earth to corpomerica(tm) (c)(r) (a)(p): Slow the frig down and smell some roses for once. Don't find new ways to make people push up daisies.

[jmowreader]

8. Read my post above...

Let me describe one of my customers' offices-on-wheels and you will see why Ford actually knew what they were doing when they designed this.

In this crap-filled truck, which is an F-350 Crew Cab with an 8-foot bed and a diesel engine, he has: one laptop computer sitting on a television wall mount that's screwed into the floorboards; one printer bungee-corded to the sheet of plywood covering the back seat; three cell phones, one of which is hooked to a fax machine; a gun rack in the back window that contains rolled-up blueprints for the job he's working on; a CB radio; a business-band radio; a 12-volt refrigerator; a coffeemaker plugged into the gas-powered arc welder that's bolted to the bed; and at least one power tool of indeterminate vintage. (And yes, he waits until he gets to the jobsite before he makes coffee. He's not that crazy.)

If this guy happens to nail the brakes while driving down the road, half that shit is going to be in the front seat and the other half is going to go through the windshield.

Believe me: this new Ford truck is going to be safer than the alternative, which seems to be bungee cords and duct tape.

[Merrick]

7. How about a kitchen

so you can cook dinner on the way home so its ready as soon as you walk in the door?

[Kenneth ken]

9. already available

you've never heard about cooking food on the engine?

I'll go see if I can find some links.

edit (that was quick):

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375751408/102-4815441-3964127?v=glance

Manifold Destiny : The One! The Only! Guide to Cooking on Your Car Engine! (Paperback)

Book Description
How many miles does it take to braise a fish fillet? Should you use your exhaust manifold or your valve cover for a pork tenderloin? Were Jaguars really designed with veal scallopini in mind? (more)

[skygazer]

10. No, this makes sense for some people

Particularly in construction where your job site is in a different location than your actual office. Though there will probably be the stray moran or two with too much money and not enough sense who will buy this and wrap it around a tree within a week or two, I think it will probably mostly appeal to contractors and such who will use those items when they're parked at their job site.