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And this is how car manufacturers going to make up the revenue loss of the new much more reliable electric drive train. AI + Autonomous driving. Both of these
by alliao 9y ago
And this is how car manufacturers going to make up the revenue loss of the new much more reliable electric drive train.
AI + Autonomous driving.
Both of these requires sensors, and silicon. Both hates abuse from vibration and heat/cold cycle, in short, they will fail.
So instead of paying for things that would break in the old car, why not pay for things that only exists in the new car.
It's not hard...
- hyperbovine 9y agoCars have been shipping with sensors and computers since the 80s. When was the last time you heard of somebody's ECU failing? What's that, you've never heard of an ECU before? :-)
- alliao 9y agoECU is pretty basic though and they do fail, I guess they all have a designed lifetime. The thing is the more complex these things become the higher probability they fail. A machine made of 10parts each with 1% of failure rate per annum doesn't just add up to 10%...
- esterly 9y agoAgreed. The sensors which fail commonly fail [1] on high milage ICE cars are in the hot places, exhaust and coolant. Battery cooling and electric motors run at a much lower temperature around 40C [2]. 1. https://www.gsfcarparts.com/blog/when-car-sensors-go-bad-symptons-for-5-common-sensors https://www.gsfcarparts.com/blog/when-car-sensors-go-bad-sym... 2. https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/questions-about-battery-cooling.95620/#post-2237439 https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/questions-about-batt...