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In a video documenting his experience, Entrepreneur Thomas Remo picked up his £64815.22 ($82,000) electric vehicle (EV) in Irvine, California. Remo's excitement turned sour when the truck "broke not even six inches off the lot" and "failed another 30 times" throughout the first day.

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[–] KISSmyOSFeddit 28 points 6 months ago

If it breaks down six inches off the lot, why the fuck would you even drive it any futher?

[–] givesomefucks 24 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Caused by a steering failure that limited vehicle speed to 4mph...

While steer-by-wire systems promise benefits like improved handling, potential downsides include increased maintenance costs. More importantly, as Remo's experience shows, any glitch in the system could lead to a complete loss of control.

He's lucky it happened immediately and not half an hour later in traffic.

But this is what happens when you do zero quality control.

[–] perviouslyiner 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
[–] grue 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Even aside from Tesla's shittiness, there's no way in Hell I'd ever drive a steer-by-wire car from any manufacturer even if you paid me.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I can understand the sentiment but it is the direction we will go...we've been using it in aircraft for about 75 years now

[–] grue 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, but not in fucking Cessnas (or other small general-aviation aircraft)! Having it be used in commercial airliners (i.e. public transit) with FAA oversight is very, very different than having it be used in owner-operated automobiles with fuck-all oversight of anything except emissions.

When Tesla gets a reaming from the government of the same intensity Boeing is getting (and has their systems tested and certified by the government with the same amount of rigor that aircraft are certified) then maybe I'll support the tech being used in buses. But even at that point I still wouldn't tolerate it in my privately-owned car, unless maybe it was Free Software or I designed the damn thing myself.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Small GA aircraft don't use FBW systems because of weight, they do however use hybrid systems that don't weigh as much. I have a lot of faith in engineers doing their job...that being said I have little faith the C-suites that run the show. In all honesty with the level of automated driving tech drive by wire is the least scary thing to me.

[–] grue 1 points 6 months ago

I have a lot of faith in engineers doing their job…that being said I have little faith the C-suites that run the show. In all honesty with the level of automated driving tech drive by wire is the least scary thing to me.

As a software engineer, I don't own any car made after 2008 (in part) because I don't trust the programming in modern cars. My objection is more about what the developers programmed on purpose -- e.g. this -- than bugs they may have introduced by mistake, but still, I'm not really a fan of any computerized nanny functions that are more complicated than ABS.

On a related note, this XKCD applies to more than just voting software.

[–] homesweethomeMrL 2 points 6 months ago

When we get there, I won’t be paying for it. Capiche?

[–] breadsmasher 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

“Do I believe all the reports of terrible build and quality control issues? Or ignore reality because muski made a new I you just have to have”

Why buy Tesla. Shitty cars made by a shitty man

[–] taiyang 17 points 6 months ago

Hah.

There's a Cybertruck parked on route to campus and it's become a running joke in my class. It's certainly a head turner, but really not in the way the owner probably intended.

My favorite statement so far is that it looks like a car that hasn't finished loading into the scene, yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

They’re going to make an upgrade package that turns it into a BOAT?

Imagine turning it into a boat and electrocuting your whole family because it leaks water everywhere…

That’s what will happen.