Aren't easily repairable, means much more expensive to repair, means drivers will be slow to repair them, if at all.
Probably don't want to shoot their premiums considering how expensive the insurance for them already is.
Probably don't want to shoot their premiums considering how expensive the insurance for them already is.
On the glass repair someone complains about $1200, glass is just expensive for front windshield. I have a non-tesla that got hit by multiple rocks and cost $2400. $2400! It was an electric pickup truck. Insurance paid for almost all. Then on my tesla, last year a huge rock hit the windshield, that cost about $1200 too.
I _hate_ newer vehicles. So much fluff and I can't disable 3/4 of it.
I drove a newer Ford Escape that had a broken sensor somewhere. It has a feature called "adaptive cruise control" where it detects the distance between the driver and the car in front of them, and adjusts the spacing accordingly. It uses a sensor of some sort to accomplish this feat.
A related sensor stopped working so, naturally it reverted to the regular kind of cruise control right? Wrong! Because the feature for the adaptive cruise control stopped working, it disabled ALL cruise control functionality.
And don't even get me started on the fucking spyware built into that vehicle (and other newer ones).
Better be thankful that you could still drive :-)
Failure modes seem to have gotten so much worse during softwareization. I suppose it's something about software culture and the expectation of "that can't happen" and expecting fixes to be simple ("if this happened they'd just have to re-install").
One example that comes to my mind often since I learned about it is the Subaru module that would drain cars' batteries because it got stuck in a re-connect loop, costing many millions in repairs, brand damage and "inconvenience" (it literally bricked the car). It could all have been avoided by thinking about failure modes for a few seconds, yet the software team (likely one tired guy in the middle of the night) didn't.
Failure modes are definitely an afterthought for new gen cars with the fancy sensors - I think it's a problem with gas and electric cars.
/oblig :-D