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Re:F-150 Lightning Recall Due to SK Cells by sbradford26 on Thursday March 23, 2023 @09:37AM (#35274578)
Processes like that work for bespoke things like the mars rovers and satellites. But for a mass produced product you will quickly run into a scale and storage issue. Ford is planning on making 150000 F150 Lightnings so around 400+ per day. With ever step expected to be completed in a couple minutes you are going to have to track tens of thousands of videos clips per day and store and archive them. Then for recall work you will have store the videos for around 15 years. The cost to maintain all of that infrastructure and storage is most likely not worth it.
Re:F-150 Lightning Recall Due to SK Cells by thakoppno on Thursday March 23, 2023 @10:35AM (#35275471)
> The cost to maintain all of that infrastructure and storage is most likely not worth it.

Your analysis is likely correct; but at the same time, a system like this has never been more affordable, possible.

Also, imagine getting a video of your brand new car’s construction at the time of purchase.

Re:F-150 Lightning Recall Due to SK Cells by sbradford26 on Thursday March 23, 2023 @10:42AM (#35275589)
So Ford is providing pictures for people who ordered Ford Broncos currently. And for a method of keeping customers interested in the vehicle they ordered I think it is a really good tactic.

https://www.motor1.com/news/542024/ford-bronco-assembly-line...

Re:F-150 Lightning Recall Due to SK Cells by detrites on Thursday March 23, 2023 @10:48AM (#35275663)
I wonder how well some kind of bespoke batch-processing video codec would work on production line footage where the endless repeats of the same mechanical motions continue for hours and across days/weeks? Encode only the difference between cycles.
Re:F-150 Lightning Recall Due to SK Cells by specialist on Thursday March 23, 2023 @11:17AM (#35276177)
Just store the diffs.
Re:F-150 Lightning Recall Due to SK Cells by dylan604 on Thursday March 23, 2023 @02:01PM (#35278787)
just store the one cycle and repeat it. nobody will know the diff