Back in the 1980s I was in the room with a customer who I had written an inspection system for, using a hand-held computer. After downloading the data from the handheld, it would upload a new inspection route.

While demoing the transfer, He asked "What happens if I disconnect this right now?".... I didn't know, and said so.

I week later it was bulletproof... you could unplug it any time you wanted, and never lose data.

That was the days of MS-DOS.

So, here we are, 30+ years later, and computers are nowhere near as constrained as they were back then.

I don't understand how Ford could even allow a screen like that to exist. It's a big red flag saying "Never buy a Ford again, they're unreliable"