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Re:Tesla responds to "bricking" issue by mkramlich on Saturday February 25, 2012 @12:59AM (#3632293)
And yet in your "$40k to fix" scenario you were wealthy enough to be able to afford a $100k+ exotic electric sports car, in the first place.

If you buy and wear a $20k watch, and you irresponsibly destroy it or lose it, it'll probably cost you $20k to replace it. And the obvious lesson for people considering buying $20k watches is you shouldn't buy one if you couldn't afford to lose it or pay to replace it. "If you have to ask the price, you can't afford it."

Re:Tesla responds to "bricking" issue by btbuilder on Saturday February 25, 2012 @03:16AM (#3632520)
I call foul on the "if you paid 100k for a car you should be able to pay 40k to recover from a mistake" logic.

If we were talking about a regular gas car - many families have cars worth $60k and we'd still be asking serious questions if, by inaction, we ended up with a $24k repair bill.

Re:Tesla responds to "bricking" issue by mkramlich on Saturday February 25, 2012 @04:58AM (#3632628)
And to continue your logic, if you buy a new car for $20k, it's entirely possible through neglect and failure to follow manufacturer's maintenance requirements that you'll end up with a car that no longer works and requires at least $6k to get the engine and transmission back into good shape again.

R < B and R (is proportional to) B

The pattern being that sometimes things which are expensive to buy are also expensive to repair. In a gas-powered car, the engine+transmission is probably the most expensive component to brick and replace. In an electric car, it seems to be the battery system.

Neglected maintenance on a $500k house can easily create situations requiring $100k in repairs or liability.

Re:Tesla responds to "bricking" issue by btbuilder on Saturday February 25, 2012 @12:49PM (#3633400)
How much neglect do you need to get a car's engine and transmission to fail?

Even if you didn't change the engine and transmission oil for 18 months that wouldn't happen. I bet it wouldn't happen if you didn't change it for 24 months.

Compare and contrast with not plugging in a car for < 4 weeks.