Reply to post: Ah - the optimism of youth

Watchdog urges Tesla to recall 158,000 Model S, X cars to fix knackered NAND flash that borks safety features

TechHeadToo

Ah - the optimism of youth

Amusing - because I own neither car nor shares in Tesla.

Young people today eh? Not enough real world experience to think through ALL of the usage cases when they design a new thing. 'Get it rapid prototyped and out there, and we'll fix it on the go... Everything is thrown away after 5 years....'

But no - it seems that when you rush stuff to market and put software out early on the basis that users will do the bug finding, there are real consequences.

Victorian cast iron engineering is the way to go. Everything replaceable, re machinable. Lasts 'forever' with some rebuild maintenance.

All the stuff in our industry that has gone wrong - Year 2000, Windoze as an OS..... yet still people believe us and but more stuff to throw away. If you keep running fast enough you stay ahead of the mob.

(Only Star Trek tells the truth - any alien even looks at a starship and smoke and flames come out of the control panels)

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