Flash Memory Wear Killing Older Teslas Due to Excessive Data Logging: Report

Re:Flash Memory Wear Killing Older Teslas Due to Excessive D... by vorpalhex on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @10:47AM (#21258976)

In an ICE vehicle, something like a transmission is very expensive and takes up amazing amounts of space, and so any kind of redundancy is very difficult.

But we're well aware that flash memory degrades, corrupts and gets a bit screwy. Flash memory chips are also dirt cheap and quite small - couldn't Tesla of baked in a bit more redundancy in this case?

In our transmission example, any fault in the transmission is not catastrophic, but with electronics, a single bad joint or bridged trace can take the whole thing down.

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Re:Flash Memory Wear Killing Older Teslas Due to Excessive D... by slg on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @11:24AM (#21259425)

I already implied that this is a design flaw and stated clearly that Tesla should be responsible for fixing this (and it appears they did things to mitigate if not eliminate this flaw when they redesigned the MCU).

I am not defending Tesla here. I am simply pointing out that this is being covered in a fundamentally different way than other cars. My last car was recalled twice for electrical wiring issues. One of the problems could have resulted in a fire and the other one would have resulted in the exact same "bricking" that you see here. Neither of those issues would be covered or dissected like this Tesla issue.

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