The new remote start and keyless entry has arrived at our hub. Got to test it out today on an old P1000.
Apparently (from above) corporate wants 1.4 more SPORH with the technology.
Sorry it's slightly OT but I couldn't find the other thread on this.
Lets do the math on this bad boy.
The other day I tried a little experiment; I closed the BH door without latching it so that I could "time" how long it took me to open the door without a key vs. with one. I didnt use a stopwatch, I just counted out one-one thousand, two-one thousand etc.
My best estimate was that not having to use a key saved me about 1.5 seconds every time I had to open the door. Lets be optimistic and round that up to a full
two seconds just to make the math easier and give UPS the benefit of the doubt.
If I am in a
tight residential area that normally averages
30 stops per hour, that means I am completing one stop every two minutes. So a savings of 2 seconds per stop X 30 stops means that, in theory, I would save a total of
one minute during that hour of work, which translates to an increase of 0.5 SPORH. And this is
without factoring in multiple stops being delivered from one park position, meaning that more than one stop is being pulled every time the BH door is opened. So in reality,
even a 30 SPORH delivery area would see a gain of less than 0.5 SPORH with keyless entry, and even then only under ideal conditions. And there are very few residential areas where 30 SPORH is even remotely possible.
I dont know who decided that keyless entry would save enough time for a 1.4 SPORH increase, but they need to put the crack pipe down and learn to do some basic math.