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Re:Ford, Not Tesla, Is Making the Electric Truck That Will C... by Reason077 on Monday May 24, 2021 @04:25AM (#27262140)
There are already millions of Teslas and other vehicles on the road with touch screen interfaces. No lawsuits so far.
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Re:Ford, Not Tesla, Is Making the Electric Truck That Will C... by Hamuko on Monday May 24, 2021 @04:53AM (#27262290)
https://electrek.co/2020/08/04/tesla-wiper-controls-ruled-il...

Not exactly a lawsuit but on the judicial axis.

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Re:Ford, Not Tesla, Is Making the Electric Truck That Will C... by crooked-v on Monday May 24, 2021 @04:30AM (#27262160)
You only have to search "Tesla touch screen lawsuit" to find that there have, in fact, been multiple lawsuits over problems with the touchscreen, as well as a recall of 135,000 vehicles.
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Re:Ford, Not Tesla, Is Making the Electric Truck That Will C... by Reason077 on Monday May 24, 2021 @04:40AM (#27262209)
That recall has nothing to do with the fact that it's a touch interface. The fault was a flash memory chip that would fail after a few years of use.
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Re:Ford, Not Tesla, Is Making the Electric Truck That Will C... by Bancakes on Monday May 24, 2021 @05:01AM (#27262330)
Why does a premium vehicle with a premium tablet have faulty components not seen even on consumer devices?
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Re:Ford, Not Tesla, Is Making the Electric Truck That Will C... by Reason077 on Monday May 24, 2021 @05:19AM (#27262421)
Because Tesla screwed up. The component itself (an 8GB e-MMC flash chip) actually wasn't faulty, but it was being misused/overused by constantly writing syslog data to it. Apparently this could amount to hundreds of MB of writes per day, with the device already mostly filled with firmware. After a few years of this it would exceed its write-cycle limit and start to fail.
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