Still driving that overpriced electric golf cart?
The F-150 owners are hacking the system by installing a jumper wire on the back of the switch. Could that be done on the JL also?If I find it irritating with the manual transmission, I'll probably implement this:
The F-150 apparently has a momentary contact switch that it does not check to ensure someone just has it constantly pushed. It it was using a latching ON-OFF switch, it would not be an issue since the switch would stay in the position that you last left it and that would likely be acceptable to everyone that does not like the ESS system. The JL uses a momentary contact switch and the car's computer is constantly polling those switches to see if they have been pressed. Jeep Informant said that he already tried wedging a piece of paper in the switch to keep it depressed and the result was that the car told him that he had switch that was having a problem and ignored what he was trying to do. That leads me to believe that they are using a momentary contact switch, just like they do with the start button and the car's computer is constantly monitoring them for changes. I've done that sort of thing often with the Arduino micro-controllers and I see no reason to suspect that they are doing differently. Whether they are constantly polling or implemented an interrupt driver, it boils down to the same thing as far as we are concerned. Apparently when the car's computer first starts up, it goes out to each of the switches and checks to see if they are depressed and do not change state. If so, it apparently considers that an error condition.
Yes I can afford a Tesla, BMW, Chevy Ltz 2500, Rubicon JLU and ordered a ZR1 VETT 2 days ago.Still driving that overpriced electric golf cart?
As the saying goes...
I went through my fast car stage... I've owned 2 Porsches so far, but considering my age and how long I tend to keep a vehicle before selling it, it's unlikely that I'll have another one. It's quite possible that I won't outlive the JL -- *when* it ever arrives.
I probably should consider selling it since I don't fly it as much as I would like. Just don't seem to have the time to do it with other things that I need to do these days. I used to use it for travel out of town on contracts that I was working on. Especially to those smaller towns where they weren't a major airline hub and it would take all day to fly there commercially anyway. Those small towns that maybe get one or two flights each day from the commercial airlines and even with that, they are often a bit expensive. It's a convenience factor also. It's also a lot less tiring to make a 1000 mile flight in one day than a 1000 mile drive. And I trust the autopilot on an aircraft a LOT more than I trust that self-driving gimmick on the Tesla and some of the other autonomous vehicles. Sure, the autopilot might not have any sort of collision avoidance in it, but the philosophy of "big sky, small plane" comes into play. Planes just don't fly close to each other normally whereas cars by their very nature get really close to each other.
Good DealI went through my fast car stage... I've owned 2 Porsches so far, but considering my age and how long I tend to keep a vehicle before selling it, it's unlikely that I'll have another one. It's quite possible that I won't outlive the JL -- *when* it ever arrives.
These days, if I want to go fast, I fly my plane... It only goes 130 kts (150 mph), but I can do that for 5 hours at a time (between refueling stops) and I don't have to be concerned about speeding tickets. Of course, the disadvantage is that I still need a rental car when I get to my destination and I might get stuck having to drive a *Toyota*...
And then I have motorcycles, some of which I seldom ride because every time I want to ride them, the carbs need cleaning thanks to the damn ethanol that the contaminate our fuel supply with these days. My Harley has fuel injection and it doesn't care about ethanol -- it starts up every time without a problem.
"We come into this world bald, drooling, and incontinent... And we leave the same way..."
For some people, once each day is probably too much.
ESS isn't operational with a manual unless (1) the engine is fully warmed up, (2) the transmission is in neutral and the clutch is released, (3) the transfer case is not in 4L, (4) the AC is not on max.
Well, I see quite a few people on the web complaining about the ESS system in various types of vehicles, so apparently it is really irritating to some people out there. I think it would have been nice if the car manufacturers had made the systems so that they used a latching type of enable switch that would thus "remember" where it was last set OR if they insisted on using the momentary contact switches like Jeep uses, they could have tied it to the ID associated with the fob to make it so that the system remembers it for each driver (actually, each fob). The problem though is that since they now have keyless start stop, it's entirely possible for there to be multiiple key fobs in the vehicle at the same time and the system would not know which one to use to set the default condition. My wife's BMW has this sort of electronic "key" that you put in the dash and then press the start button and it remembers certain things (e.g. seat position, IIRC) based on which "key" is in the slot (or maybe it's which key was used to unlock it). As such, it is not possible for it to mistakenly use one key's saved states for another key. But then again, I don't drive that vehicle enough to know what all it does save and what it doesn't.
