The Gov goes after Tesla, color me surprised.
The Gov goes after Tesla, color me surprised.
It's my understanding that the bug could cause the touchscreen to fail in as little as five years. Without the touchscreen you can no longer control the climate system. Replacing the touchscreen is $1400. Anyone who's worked with flash memory on an embedded systems knows about problems with writing to much to flash memory. The first project I ever did with flash memory had me stupidly burn out a memory chip in a few seconds from several bugs in the code. Back in the day those chips were expensive, and I never made that mistake again. A $90k car shouldn't have features become inoperable in less than a decade from such a simple engineering over site.
It's my understanding that the bug could cause the touchscreen to fail in as little as five years. Without the touchscreen you can no longer control the climate system. Replacing the touchscreen is $1400. Anyone who's worked with flash memory on an embedded systems knows about problems with writing to much to flash memory. The first project I ever did with flash memory had me stupidly burn out a memory chip in a few seconds from several bugs in the code. Back in the day those chips were expensive, and I never made that mistake again. A $90k car shouldn't have features become inoperable in less than a decade from such a simple engineering over site.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/5/21502379/tesla-modely-roof-flies-off-convertible-quality-issue
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