Posted on 05/18/2015 1:17:43 PM PDT by logi_cal869
A new car shouldn't have problems when you’ve owned it for less than a month. Yet Consumer Reports' brand-new $127,000 Tesla Model S P85 D, with the fancy retractable door handles refused to let us in, effectively rendering the car undriveable.
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That’s extra green.
Can’t you just remote into it with your iPhone, or something?
“I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.”
Obama should have given them more than a Billion Dollar Grant
“Obama should have given them more than a Billion Dollar Grant”
Considering that the Fraud’s buddies don’t have to pay taxes, he probably did.
That’s not a bug....that’s a feature :)
Dumb cars are so much more reliable than smart cars
Tesla sent somebody over to fix the car right away and they aren't even done reviewing the car yet.
But they just couldn't resist taking the opportunity to be all catty and snotty about it.
It is the new “instant brick” feature. No waiting for discharged batteries
This is what you call “over-engineered.” You take a simple device that can’t go wrong — a door handle — and you turn it into some sophisticated interactive robotics device and BLAMMO! Disaster.
A door handle should be such a stable design that it should never fail (at least until ridiculous amounts of wear and tear), and such a simple design that a failure is relatively harmless.
The failure was small, but because of over-engineering, the result was catastrophic: the complete inability to use the car. I’d hate to have someone from Tesla have to come running over some night when I’m heading out to my car in an empty parking lot. OTOH, this fault has little to do with Tesla’s core technology and much to do with the way it has gained financing: rather than target the low-end of the car market, it went for the ultra-high end, and therefore felt obliged to put a whole bunch of bells and whistles that are almost inevitable over-engineered.
Worse car I ever drove was my wife’s (then-girlfriend’s) VW. They thought they were cute to over-engineer every element of the car, and wound up with a bunch of horrible defects, from an electrical wire which ran past the bizarrely placed ash tray (in the back seat, where usually the kids sit), and pulled out any time any kid played with the ash tray... to a headlight that blew every 200 miles, and required a preposterous amount of disassembly to reach... to a button for emergency flashers that worked fine if you could find it on the ceiling.
This is what you call “over-engineered.”
I Disagree, this is typical of most businesses these days and I believe it has more to do with allowing Public School Graduates in to Engineering classes when they should be sweeping floors at Starbucks.
They sent someone over the next morning.
Exactly!
KISS
The fix for the door handle problem should be in the operator’s manual—in the glove compartment.
Stupid or lazy people wash out of engineering classes early on. Your shot at public schooling is garbage.
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