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Apart from dirt, rain, snow, sleet, dust... mechanical and electrical failures, software errors...
by troupo 3y ago
Apart from dirt, rain, snow, sleet, dust... mechanical and electrical failures, software errors...
- erulabs 3y agoRecessed with hydrophobic cover, heater element, mechanical redundancy (or better, zero moving parts), electronic redundancy, and software testing. Solved! These are all entire industries that already power society-vital functions. Embrace it!
- kpmcc 3y agoSo much complexity to do the same thing as a mirror and a window…
- bonton89 3y agoAnd 10 years from now when it fails it will be a $1200 repair.
- erulabs 3y agoSure - but as the article points out there are safety and efficiency wins by removing the rear window. Anyways if it’s a terrible decision I’m sure the reviews will point that out. My point was just that the Luddite “computers are bad” argument is silly when all modern cars and planes and everything else is fly-by-wire. If computers fail, the world fails - good thing engineering isn’t just a faf and reliability engineering actually works!
- dzhiurgis 3y agoIt’s a mirror, not a a steering wheel (which has been hybrid-electronic well over a decade and purely electronic since cybertruck)
- troupo 3y agoIt's not a mirror. They are replacing it with a camera. Which, as any vehicle camera ever, will be susceptible to everything described.