Re:Tesla: Recalled touchscreens were meant to only last 5-6 ...
by throwaway2245 on Saturday February 06, 2021 @06:51PM
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> it's 0.4% of the used market.
This sounded unlikely to me, so I checked a local site and got 4.9% >20 years old in the used market. A lot of people drive their old cars beyond the point that they are not worth re-selling, so I'd expect that to be an underestimate of how many cars are that old.
The article linked suggests the average age of a car on the road in the USA is 12 years - if you're then selling cars that are designed to obsolete in 6 years, that has potential consumer law implications.
This sounded unlikely to me, so I checked a local site and got 4.9% >20 years old in the used market. A lot of people drive their old cars beyond the point that they are not worth re-selling, so I'd expect that to be an underestimate of how many cars are that old.
The article linked suggests the average age of a car on the road in the USA is 12 years - if you're then selling cars that are designed to obsolete in 6 years, that has potential consumer law implications.