To be expected when not-a-car company makes cars :)

(For instance GM has a strict list of test scenarios for their onstar integration)

They still screw up. I like this example because it's their infotainment screen failing prematurely:

https://cadillacsociety.com/2019/10/28/second-lawsuit-filed-...

Sure but that’s not a software issue, that’s poor material selection

I wonder if a “cycle” is actually a full drive write. If it is, then they have ~11GB/day, which is nuts, at least in the pre-dashcam models. But I can easily imagine that a cheap eMMC part has poor wear leveling and eats a “cycle” after much less than 8GB.

It's not, the issue was there is no wear leveling, so it's 1.4 writes per day. This is approximately 2 trips a day, 5 days a week. Reading between the lines I believe the car "eats into" the 3000-5000 cycles everytime it is cycled on.