Tesla’s New Car Smell

Re:Tesla’s New Car Smell by brianwawok on Monday October 16, 2017 @05:05PM (#15486652)

So to try and bring back to software terms. There can be two reasons for a shaky launch in a software product:

1) An app is solid, has awesome QA... but the environment does not. You need to shake out some networking bugs / load bugs, etc.

2) The app is terrible. Every part of it is broke. needs a total rewrite.

To an end user both feel the same, but the expected curve to make it stable is VASTLY different.

In theory Tesla has been in the car business for at least a few years. It MAY be closer to 1. Maybe 2 or 3 vendors are 3 months behind schedule in delivering production machines. Which is bad, but not "we are totally screwed" bad.

On the other hand, it is insanely ambitious. It totally could be a #2 totally screwed bad.

Time will tell.

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Re:Tesla’s New Car Smell by ubernostrum on Monday October 16, 2017 @06:21PM (#15487128)

Or maybe Tesla "has been in the car business for a few years" and, in typical "disruptive" startup fashion, is ignoring lessons learned the hard way over decades. Mostly because, it seems, anything an established company does is wrong as a mater of dogmatic definition.

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