Why I think Tesla is building throwaway cars

Re:Why I think Tesla is building throwaway cars by pmarreck on Sunday March 06, 2016 @06:11PM (#11236060)

The most WTF part of that article to me was "if hackers are able to find a way to unlock the 40kwh versions to hold a 60kwh charge (which are physically identical batteries limited by software)" ...Seriously?

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Re:Why I think Tesla is building throwaway cars by B1FF_PSUVM on Sunday March 06, 2016 @06:16PM (#11236088)

Ah, another youngster who didn't hear the one about the IBM mainframe upgrades done by moving a jumper.

P.S. it's kind of funny that people who make a living from the sale of goods with zero marginal production cost (i.e. additional copies of a program) get weirded out by "pay-by-value" from hardware manufacturers ...

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Re:Why I think Tesla is building throwaway cars by PhilWright on Sunday March 06, 2016 @06:27PM (#11236126)

There is a diesel generator company that makes semi-truck sized mobile generators for backup purposes/remote locations. The difference between the cheap vs expensive variants is around $250,000. They only difference is the cheap one has software to limit the output. Now if you could hack that you could save yourself quarter of a mil.

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Re:Why I think Tesla is building throwaway cars by B1FF_PSUVM on Monday March 07, 2016 @12:06AM (#11237216)

> if you could hack that you could save yourself quarter of a mil.

Pikers. Sneak in there a hidden octa-core Xeon server running ... ah ... 'cloned' Oracle licences, and that's probably a cool million.

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