SoCalGuy - the sirius xm channels just finished a free preview period, not fiskers fault. They tend to have free preview periods about once every two months, for a week or two.
I've been nibbling around the edges of CAN-as-used-in-cars and it's a big mess. A lot of it seems to boil down to regulations: carmakers are simply not allowed to use a better system.Dutch said:I think the engineers best put their time and effort into a completely overhauled control system.
I want the hear more about the Carver! Perhaps in a different thread.Willie de Wortel said:I am driving a Carver One in summertime (a tilting car). They went bankrupt by selling cars (with electronic and hydraulic problems) only for the short term moneymaking as you seemingly do at the moment. They went up producing around 250 of them after wich they could not sell anymore due to all negative resounds on the web
Would your dealer happen to be Fisker of Orange County? They picked up mine Thursday to do cosmetic fixes as well as the latest software update. I'll let you know what happens.SoCalGuy said:So after leaving the car with my dealer for the last 5 days, I finally got it back today and really all they did was update my software from 6.12 to 6.14.2. They didn't address ANY of the other issues on the list I sent them last week. They didn't fix the heat shield. They didn't fix the trunk. They didn't fix the body panels. They didn't fix the leather on the passenger seat. Or the wind noise/rattle from the rear window or the driver's window. They didn't even give me floormats!!! (I've had my car for 4.5 weeks, so you think they'd set some aside knowing that I'm owed floormats). Needless to say, I was EXTREMELY dissatisfied, especially because I called them twice this week to make sure they were making progress on the car, and I just got "yes yes, the car's software was updated on Monday and they're working on the rest now." I also noticed they didn't do any on road driving with the car to make sure it was working right with the new software - the Speedo was only ~0.5-1 mile more than I when I dropped it off. That kind of 'service' is just unacceptable, especially for a car in this price range. Needless to say, Fisker HQ will be hearing about this!!!
Also, side note, as most of you know, I had no dash problems with 6.12 but did have some issues with the Command Center. Now having 6.14.2, I've had 3 different "check oil" light flashes (that comes on, chimes, then disappears). It first happened when I left the dealer and put it into Sport mode, and its happened two other times today. No other issues with the dash thus far.
On the Command Center, the energy flow screen showed "0 mpg" a few times despite me driving 65mph and having gone 20-30 miles. The Bluetooth phone quality is still terrible - really unchanged from 6.12. The NAV seems more stable than before (but now the volume for NAV is much louder than the radio, so much so that even at setting 7, the radio is very faint when NAV lady is speaking). Oh, and the satellite radio, I no longer have access to those 20 or so channels I had before - now I'm stuck with two preview channels!!!
Not happy.
Yep.ejo3rd said:Would your dealer happen to be Fisker of Orange County? They picked up mine Thursday to do cosmetic fixes as well as the latest software update. I'll let you know what happens.
- CT-Fiskerbuzz; I'd rather hear them saying they are working on it than believing it. Would be good for thier sales.doug said:I want the hear more about the Carver! Perhaps in a different thread.Willie de Wortel said:I am driving a Carver One in summertime (a tilting car). They went bankrupt by selling cars (with electronic and hydraulic problems) only for the short term moneymaking as you seemingly do at the moment. They went up producing around 250 of them after wich they could not sell anymore due to all negative resounds on the web
Right: the bus is fine when used as intended, as in, for regularly reading and writing sensors and actuators.Sparky168 said:The [CAN] bus is not so bad. The data rate is 1Mbps, assuming the bus length in the Karma is less than 40m (a small chip shot in golf). The bus arbitration is done by assigned seniority. So seems like a pretty robust bus. Up to 8byte of data per packet. Seems adequate. Just a guess, if the speed is encoded to a hundredth of a mph, 200 mph = 20000, which takes 15-bit to represent (non-signed) or round it up to two-byte. So you would need to drive reaaallly fast to run out of byteOf course, CAN_bus would not be good to stream music video from the Internet
The standard takes care of the transfer layer which is responsible for bit timing and synchronization, message framing, arbitration, acknowledgement, error detection and signalling, and fault confinement.
It seems designer has free hands in the Object layer where message and status handling and message filtering are done. So it seems it is 'all typing' (software) in the Object layer, provided of course the 1 Mbps bus bandwidth is sufficient for all the communication.
Thinking out loud, or not thinking deeply, if Karma is a descendent of a battle hardened military design (according to Nimisys), then would there be redundancy in the CAN-bus? Not saying it is necessary but it could be a '007-Bond' car feature...self healing even shot by bulletsI digress.
Willie de Wortel said:Willie, you asked me a question via PM. But my answer to you came back because your PM-function is disabled. I think you have to activate it in your account settings.doug said:I want the hear more about the Carver! Perhaps in a different thread.Willie de Wortel said:I am driving a Carver One in summertime (a tilting car). They went bankrupt by selling cars (with electronic and hydraulic problems) only for the short term moneymaking as you seemingly do at the moment. They went up producing around 250 of them after wich they could not sell anymore due to all negative resounds on the web