"Catastrophic Failure" sounds a bit dramatic.
yeah, they got the 2020 equivalent of a blinking engine check light, but !on a Tesla! so it's a blog post and on the front page nonetheless
Our Tesla Model 3 Suffered a Failure While Parked
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#12"Catastrophic Failure" sounds a bit dramatic.
Yeah, I totally expected there to be some kind of injury or at least a threat of it involved. But I'm not a frequent driver so I guess I cannot relate to these "catastrophes" as well as I could.
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#13On the flip side, how cool is it that cars are now smart enough to diagnose themselves and prevent you from driving before what could potentially be an unsafe situation has a chance to occur?
"Now"? This has been implemented for years - most people just call it "Check engine light" ;)
The check engine light doesn't send a notification directly to your phone with a diagnosis of what's wrong.
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#14On the flip side, how cool is it that cars are now smart enough to diagnose themselves and prevent you from driving before what could potentially be an unsafe situation has a chance to occur?
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#15"Catastrophic Failure" sounds a bit dramatic.
The car could no longer drive. Short of bursting into flames that’s about as bad as it gets.
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#16"Catastrophic Failure" sounds a bit dramatic.
TFA mentions a "pyrotechnic battery" which sounds like a great feature for a military fort but not so much for an automobile?
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#17On the flip side, how cool is it that cars are now smart enough to diagnose themselves and prevent you from driving before what could potentially be an unsafe situation has a chance to occur?
"Now"? This has been implemented for years - most people just call it "Check engine light" ;)
The check engine light doesn't prevent you from driving.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Now"? This has been implemented for years - most people just call it "Check engine light" ;)
The check engine light doesn't send a notification directly to your phone with a diagnosis of what's wrong.
No, it doesn't send your car location to the cloud and tells it to everyone involved, true.
The diagnosis however is available for retrieval via industry standard connector - OBD2.
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#19Recently my bothers Ford Focus had service engine light that had come on and vehicle was shut down. He had it towed to ford. which let him know that they recently had a recall on the model and they knew the exact issue. He was neither given rental nor Uber or loaner etc. he had to talk to his insurance company which also did not include recall as a clause so he had to rent. This sort of shit happens to all cars. Alth…
Did the focus cost $57k?