To buy a Tesla Model 3, only to end up in hell

Yeah, it is a lot, but it is the same in "fully working" cars.

Additionally, once you to the math things look bad: 8% of a battery pack of 60kWh is around 5kWH. 5000 Wh / 24h = 208 W.

200W to keep few cameras on and a small CPU/GPU to run the logic seems a lot. Especially considering that you don't need to analyze every frame of every camera. In fact, you could easily run one frame every 5 seconds making it ~ 1FPS analyzed (6 cameras) since the car is parked.

Additionally, you don't need to run heavy models on all the images. You can run some sort of diff to see if pixels changed within a tolerance threshold between the new and the old image and only if that's true then you run the ML models.

A colleague of mine bought a Model 3, which he has mostly been happy with.

But, since there aren't any dealerships / service points anywhere close, he has to drive 12 hours to the closest one. He got some error, I think it was the tire pressure sensors/tire pressure monitoring system, and had to drive 12 hours, sleep in hotel, and drive 12 hours back, to get that error fixed.

Two days after he comes back home, a new error with the AC pops up. Back on the road.

Local 3rd party techs can't do anything with it anyway. And since it was still under warranty, that's what he had to do. With that said, from what I've heard, they've increased their traveling / touring techs that will visit rural towns.

Hell, even repairing my 14 year old Audi is 50% mechanical work, and 50% knowing how to use the diagnosis / VCDS tool. I'm not even joking when I say that my electrical engineering and programming background has helped me more with fixing my car, than the mechanical skills I picked up in the garage. ¨

With very modern cars, there's just little one can do.

Considering these are (bad) corner case situations other modern cars seem to be having as much as Tesla, just by glancing at the comments, the first thing in the article highlighted being "Elon Musk's company!" just makes this look like a hit piece no different from that oil&gas connected "car reviewer" who forced the Tesla to run empty by driving back n forth in a parking lot.

The crazies are always there. But they don't belong on HN.

I think google's prev ceo once said something like, "Computers should have been invented before cars". They took it wrong, computerizing cars before reaching level 5 automony was a mistake.

Stop wasting your time waiting on tesla. It is in their interests to delay you as much as possible.

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