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> A touch screen is cheaper, because they can re-use the same hardware between different vehicles rather than having to design/build/assemble a slightly differe
by belatw 5y ago
> A touch screen is cheaper, because they can re-use the same hardware between different vehicles rather than having to design/build/assemble a slightly different set of physical buttons for different models with different features.
Any savings will be lost by one class action lawsuit or mass recall. Touch screen is the wrong interface when lives are on the line.
- Reason077 5y agoThere are already millions of Teslas and other vehicles on the road with touch screen interfaces. No lawsuits so far.
- crooked-v 5y agoYou only have to search "Tesla touch screen lawsuit" to find that there have, in fact, been multiple lawsuits over problems with the touchscreen, as well as a recall of 135,000 vehicles.
- Reason077 5y agoThat recall has nothing to do with the fact that it's a touch interface. The fault was a flash memory chip that would fail after a few years of use.
- Bancakes 5y agoWhy does a premium vehicle with a premium tablet have faulty components not seen even on consumer devices?
- Reason077 5y agoBecause Tesla screwed up. The component itself (an 8GB e-MMC flash chip) actually wasn't faulty, but it was being misused/overused by constantly writing syslog data to it. Apparently this could amount to hundreds of MB of writes per day, with the device already mostly filled with firmware. After a few years of this it would exceed its write-cycle limit and start to fail.
- Hamuko 5y agohttps://electrek.co/2020/08/04/tesla-wiper-controls-ruled-illegal-germany-crashed/ https://electrek.co/2020/08/04/tesla-wiper-controls-ruled-il... Not exactly a lawsuit but on the judicial axis.