The 3k writes in the article sound like a single page lifecycle number, and the computation indicates it fails after that many vehicle starts. Meaning they are

The 3k writes in the article sound like a single page lifecycle number, and the computation indicates it fails after that many vehicle starts. Meaning they are either rewriting the entire flash on every start (8G) or it simply doesn't have a FTL. Which means its not even to the level of needing to worry about write amplification. Pretty rookie mistake there.