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Re:Tesla remotely converts battery pack, cutting 1/3 of range by slingnow on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @02:28PM (#32241994)
It took "thousands of brilliant engineers" to replace the engine of a vehicle with some large batteries?

I think you're overstating the "brilliance" of the engineers. I have no doubt the core of them working on the battery tech could be in the brilliant category, but the rest of those thousands of engineers are run-of-the-mill automotive engineers.

Would you describe Ford as being composed of thousands of brilliant engineers?

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Re:Tesla remotely converts battery pack, cutting 1/3 of range by ajconway on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @02:53PM (#32242353)
> Would you describe Ford as being composed of thousands of brilliant engineers?

Absolutely.

I've seen people believe that creating a browser is no big deal, can you imagine developing, manufacturing, compliance certification, marketing and distribution of actual vehicles, planet-scale?

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Re:Tesla remotely converts battery pack, cutting 1/3 of range by nr2x on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @06:00PM (#32244628)
Also the “crash” outcome isn’t lost tabs.
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