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Engineering talk. The moment when bean counters start talking, you will be glad for any storage and it is not going to be enough.
by TheLoafOfBread 3y ago
Engineering talk. The moment when bean counters start talking, you will be glad for any storage and it is not going to be enough.
- apocalyptic0n3 3y agoI worked for a while at an auto supplier (heavy vehicle like semis, buses, RVs, and military) in their test labs. The bean counting is real. I remember one test we had to do involved replacing a single bolt in a 200lb wheel assembly with one whose threads were 30% shorter and barely made it through the hole. It wasn't a clearance issue, per the PM and engineer, it was because shrinking that bolt saved half a penny per wheel end (or something small like that) and would put them under their targeted cost per unit, nevermind the hundreds of hours of testing that had to be run to validate the new assembly. PMs are given a target price and a target cost. They will do everything in their power to get under it because their job depends on it. Those drives are going to be the bare minimum necessary for storing what they need to (not what they want to) and will likely have a very short lifespan overall.
- autoexec 3y agoWhen car companies start making enough money selling the data they collect they'll add all the storage needed to keep the cash flowing. If the lifespan is short they'll just force the user to get the car serviced and make them pay to replace it at the drivers expense.