[MCTG] [MCN-Discussion]- Tesla Hacker Highlights Major Issue

[Stewart Dickson]

> Why would you log every touch to the disk?
Uh, that's what a Journaling File System does.
Those have been in standard used for decades.
If Tesla has some alternate implementation which
is not transparent to normal disk-memory caching
(which is what Journaling filesystems do) then that's
a really stupid implementation.

-Stewart


On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 12:07 PM ezekielk <ezekielk at gay-bible.org> wrote:

> Some viewer commented:
>
> "The way Tesla treated me and other customers is why I sold mine. They
> lied to me about the ability to extend my warranty as well."
>
> "Feels like a Class Action waiting to happen. Car keels over due to
> manufacturer negligence, who then forces an expensive replacement rather
> then just repair/replace the board they killed."
>
> "Irony...... Develop a car that is  supose to help the enviroment yet
> they dont want to help develop the repair market to keep these vehicles
> from becoming environmental problems when they break down."
>
> "Rich, that the insurance cost for Tesla owners is high because of
> Tesla's policy not to support the second-hand market is super important.
>   Something you need to emphasize in your upcoming videos.  That is a big
> insight that Phil brought up, I don't think you picked up on the
> importance."
>
> "Geeze, as a data engineer who works in Linux boxes most of my day, wtf?
> Why would you log every touch to the disk? If anything, if this logging
> is absolutely needed by a developer, it'd be better to store in memory,
> then batch the information over to disk periodically or event triggered
> whichever comes first before the load on memory is too much. Up till
> now, I've been fine with all the issues Rich has brought up as they're
> not something I'm concerned about due to Tesla warranty covering my
> purchase. However, this is different, this is their insufficient
> software to hardware coding that is going to screw me once I'm outside
> of normal warranty even though this is a design flaw. I don't care about
> panel gaps or any of that, but when you f'up the software, and the foot
> the bill onto me ... I now have an issue."
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-7b1waoj9Q
>
> --
> The /real/ Zeke Krahlin
>
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