Lol. “Continuous improvement” is a great euphemism.
I don't know anything about cars, but do those old BMWs have software that requires maintenance? Tesla likely will.
Re:Roof blows off new Tesla Model Y
by reitzensteinm on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @07:45PM
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At some point they can just freeze the upgrades like Apple does and just provide maintenance.
A bit of a pain to be supporting some LTS versions, but not that big relative to the billions in sales you're supporting with it.
But Tesla's continuous improvement means parts aren't tied to model years and are often already hard to track down. They're not going to be made by third parties given the lack of scale.
I'm foreseeing small faults totalling otherwise perfectly good cars later on in the current generation.
If Tesla ramps up like they're claiming though, this problem will sort itself out.