• Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    If someone figures out a quick and efficient way to light their batteries on fire, they might be able to bankrupt Tesla in short order. Landlords would kick their showrooms for fear of building fires. People would stop buying due to fear of … fire. If on top of that a few Tesla parking lots with new cars became unfit for sale …

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      4 days ago

      It’d be a pity if someone were to SSH into the car’s admin interface and screw up the battery controller’s thermal management software. They’re all always online.

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        Hopefully this is separated from typical software and can’t be just changed remotely

        Usually the hardware has some low level safety guards, and aren’t just done in high level software

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            2 days ago

            Ouch

            I still don’t get how people like to but have physical buttons in a car.
            I do have most things at physical buttons and even the little stuff I need to do at the main screen is getting on my nerves, because I need to hit the correct space on the screen while driving (like confirming something or cancelling a route or something)
            And even that feels like a major safety issue

            Can’t understand how people drive a Tesla, where even the speed of their windshield wipers are to be found somewhere in a sub menu