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The requirements for electronics in a car are pretty extreme (temp, durability), not that I disagree, but it's not apples to oranges.

• cosmie 1y ago
  That hasn’t stopped Tesla before. They have a track record of treating automotive-grade quality standards as optional when doing electronics sourcing[1]. As the article notes, Tesla conveniently “fixed” their thermals and durability issue that caused by inventing a feature called cabin overheat protection and marketing it as for people/animals overheating and not for the non-automotive-spec electronics in the cabin. If you can’t bring auto quality electronics to the car, just change the car so it avoids standard auto thermal conditions ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://www.thedrive.com/tech/27989/teslas-screen-saga-shows-why-automotive-grade-matters https://www.thedrive.com/tech/27989/teslas-screen-saga-shows...
  • daniel_iversen 1y ago
    Don’t they constantly get tested as the safest car in the world? I saw it years ago in some American news and the first google result is from New Zealand last year https://www.drivencarguide.co.nz/news/tesla-model-y-is-the-safest-car-of-2024-aa-driven-coty/#:~:text=The%20AA%20Safest%20cars%20for,its%20overall%20score%20of%2091.50. https://www.drivencarguide.co.nz/news/tesla-model-y-is-the-s...
• lucb1e 1y ago
  > requirements for electronics in a car are pretty extreme + the salaries of everyone working on that stuff, not just assembly but also writing the code to support it Not that I disagree, either: at the volumes that a modest car company puts out, I'd assume it's easily worth the, say, 3% cost premium on the car's total price to have something that can actually see things you don't see and thus makes a safer system. It might even reduce costs by having lower requirements for the vision hardware and software, but that's not something I can know. There's a lot of unknowns here that I think mean we can't really do a good comparison indeed