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Or alternatively people could stop buying cars that are designed in this way: >The screen, which runs all functions of the truck, went black, and wouldn’t resp
by Barrin92 3y ago
Or alternatively people could stop buying cars that are designed in this way:
>The screen, which runs all functions of the truck, went black, and wouldn’t respond at all [...] A call with Tesla confirmed that the truck had needed a complete reboot which took over five hours of sitting to complete
It's an actual joke that this is what modern automotive engineering has become.
- mrkeen 3y ago> Or alternatively people could stop buying cars that are designed in this way It's hard to do in a race-to-the-bottom scenario. I'm not saying that it's the case yet with cars, but it will be eventually. Same with TVs: I want to give money to the manufacturer who will sell me a TV without advertising malware.
- rsynnott 3y ago> It's an actual joke that this is what modern automotive engineering has become. I mean, there've always been cars with crap electrics; Jaguar used to be notorious, say (because of these people, a case-study in how to screw up competition regulation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_Industries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_Industries).